Till on a day, as in his wonted wise His doole he made, there chaunst a turtle Dove To come where he his dolors did devise

to reduce a city to ashes

Intellectual activity during the Edo period can be broadly classified into three categories: … (2) Japanese learning (kokugaku), which arose in mid-Tokugawa times as a reaction to the sinocentrism that then prevailed in scholarly circles; …

The mesoderm next becomes differentiated into three regions: a dorsal region, called the epimere, which lies to each side of the neural tube; a middle region called the mesomere or nephrotome, situated lateral and ventral to the epimere