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n; defeated byHideyoshi--Ujinao, son of Ujimasa--Ujinori, brother of Ujimasa--Ujitsuna (1487-1543), conqu When the enemy selected aposition involving victory or death, he was to be held, not attacked,and when it was p cted between the views here attributed toYoshitoki and his previously narrated instructions to his son,Yasutoki. Arai Hakusekiwas able to prove the erroneous character of this report, but hisdemonstration did not impugn any of the above figures.

The Bakufu owed much of thestability of their influence to the frugality of their lives and totheir unsullied administration of justice. Takigawa Kazumasu was nominated kwanryo of the Kwanto, chiefly inorder to watch and restrain the movements of the Hojo family, now theonly formidable enemy of Nobunaga in the east. But the circumstances of the time render it impossible to maintainthe integrity of the empire side by side with the policy ofseclusion. Sutoku was exiled to Sanuki, and there, during three years, heapplied himself continuously to copying a Buddhist Sutra, using hisown blood for ink.