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The Matsudaira of Aizu, Takamatsu, and Matsuyama; the Iiof Hikone, and the Sakai of Himeji--these were the families whichperformed the functions of tamarizume as a hereditary right. The latter centered inthe Imperial Court, the former in the Court of the Hojo. YASUTOKI'S EXPLANATIONThere had not been any previous instance of such treatment of theImperial family by a subject, and public opinion was not unnaturallysomewhat shocked. battle--Akinobu--Chikafusa (1293-1354), historian and statesman, assistant governorof O-U; faithful to Go-Daigo; Main leader of Southern army; author ofJinno Shotoki; attempts to unite courts; death; combines Shinto,Buddhism and Confucianism

gery, a bushi's punishment in this casebeing banishment, or simply confiscation of his fief, if possessed ofone. If you have notforgotten the favours of the deceased shogun, you will join heartsand hands to punish the traducers and to preserve the old order. Already his ownobservation had disclosed to the Tokugawa chief abundant evidence ofthe spirit of strife engendered by Christian dogma in those times. Miyoshi Nagateru retired to Chion-in,where he committed suicide; Sumimoto fled to Awa, dying there a fewmonths later, and Yoshitane, after brief refuge in the island ofAwaji, died in Awa, in 1523.