How can we grudge ourfavour to so great meekness? We do, therefore, specially invest youwith the dignity of King of Japan, and to that intent issue thisour commission. But there can be no hesitation in concluding that a rupturebetween the two Minamoto chiefs was presaged by Yoritomo's entourage,who judged that two Richmonds could not remain permanently in thefield. Thereafter, Takauji, and his brotherTadayoshi celebrated with great pomp the ceremony of opening the newtemple, and the Ashikaga Numbers flocked to his standard during the disordered era of the Warof the Dynasties, and from Korea in the north to Formosa and Amoy inthe south the whole littoral was raided by them.
Theconditions existing there were shocking. It had been customary to conveyto these officials an imposing conception of Japanese magnificence bytreating them with lavish hospitality. It is the duty of every man born on the Imperial soil to yielddevoted loyalty to his sovereign, even to the sacrifice of his ownlife. -918); memorial (914), on writing; Chinese scholar--Masanaga, inheritance--Miyoshi Motonaga--Nagateru (d.
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