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' as instruments for ruling aviciously inclined population, it became necessary to insist on morethan the actual duty of man. Yoshimitsu prayed the Emperor to visit this unprecedentedly beautifulretreat and Go-Komatsu complied. orial impeachingYoshisada on the ground that, whereas the latter's military successeshad been the outcome enti * The JapaneseGovernment had then to consider whether it would suffer its authorityto be thus defied by foreign visitors or whether it would resort toextreme measures.

Yorinaga had the good fortune to fall on thefield of battle, and his father, Tadazane, was saved by theintercession of his elder son, Tadamichi, of whose dislike he hadlong been a victim. But Go-Toba, profoundlyincensed, applied himself from that day to mustering soldiers andpractising military tactics. hecastle of Koga, ultimately (1680) becoming prime minister (dairo)with an annual revenue of 130,000 koku. s, and nothingcan have seemed less likely than that a creed thus lightly embracedwould be adhered to in defiance of torture and death.