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 and six years later, when, on the death of of Utsunomiya, one of his vassals adhered to the old custom, the Yedo administration reduced the estates of the fief by twenty thousand koku, executed the two sons of Sugiura Matsubei, who had committed suicide, and banished his grandson. Not until the exaction of these terrible penalties did the custom receive its death-blow.  —Mr. J. Conder in his admirable work, "Landscape Gardening in Japan."  —Conder's "Landscape Gardening in Japan." 