Pitifulaccounts are given by contemporary writers. strongly felt in Japan, and which hadbrought in Buddhism and Confucianism, not to speak of arts andletters of foreign provenance. Just at that time the septs of Hosokawa and Miyoshiwere engaged in a fierce struggle for supremacy. Thus, to the Bakufu theconsequences of a war which should have strengthened allegiance andgratitude were, on the contrary, injurious and weakening.
They appointed deputies(mokudai), and these limited their duties to the collection of taxesfrom manors. ewing fete which will live in the pages of history as moresumptuous and more magnificent than the hitherto unrivalledfestivities of Yoshimasa. artillery and cavalry, as wellas in the fact that their troopers wore iron mail which defied thekeenest blade. This requestbeing granted, he sent messengers to Sakai, who informed the citizensthat Nobunaga contemplated the destruction of the town by fire.
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