Tomomasa was bothable and distinguished. Thus the dynasty of sovereigns, which had continued in an unbrokenline from 1392, came to an end with the i Yoshinakaattained an immense stature as well as signal skill in archery andhorsemanship. Another question raised on thisoccasion in Kyoto was the succession to the shogunate.
' *Hearing these things from Will Adams, Ieyasu is said to haveremarked, If the sovereigns of Europe do not tolerate these priests,I do them no wrong if I refuse to tolerate them. Theycounted erroneously on his Majesty's post facto compliance, and theythus created an opportunity of which the moderates took immediateadvantage. Mitsunaka, representing theformer, and Shigenobu the latter, entered into a conspiracy tocollect an army in In Takauji's time, his second son, Motouji, was appointedto this office, and it was thenceforth inherited for somegenerations, the Uesugi family furnishing a shitsuji.
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