Sulfur and the Shimazu Clan (5)

      Shimazu Yoshihiro (1535-1619) presented 90 kilograms of sulfur to Fukushima Masanori (1561-1624) in some year.

     Shimazu Iehisa (1576-1638) presented 600 kilograms of sulfur and other gifts to Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616) in 1609.  Ieyasu had won the Battle of Seki-ga-hara in 1600, and had been appointed as a shogun in 1603.  Iehisa also presented 3 tons of sulfur to Fukushima Masanori (1561-1624), in 1617, 2 years after the Toyotomi Clan had been destroyed by Ieyasu.  Masanori was one of the best generals and also one of the most powerful daimyos at the time.

     On July the 21st in some year, Ieyasu wrote a thank-you letter to Iehisa for 1.2 tons of sulfur.

     On December the 18th in some year, Ieyasu wrote another thank-you letter to Iehisa for 300 kilograms of sulfur.

     On February the 7th in some year, Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604-1651), the 3rd shogun reigning 1623-1651, wrote a thank-you letter to Iehisa for sulfur and other gifts.

     We should be terrified if we had political leaders who are pleased to be presented with pure plutonium 239.