Thereafter, for a space of 387 years,there was no addition to the number: things remained stationary un tedfor arena Dan-no-ura, that is to say, the littoral of Nagato provinceimmediately east of the Shimonoseki Strait. Looking back to remote centuries, they may well have imagined thatthe unification of the empire under on h came intoexistence after Hideyoshi's death, though its personnel and itsfunctions remained throughout the same as they had been originally.
After many vicissitudes thefamily disappeared from history in the middle of the sixteenthcentury. Therefore, although in the matter of lineage no distinction could bejustly set up between the Northern and the Southern Courts, thecollaterals of legitimacy were all with the latter. Uesugi Mochitomofortified Kawagoe in Musashi; Ota Sukenaga (called also Dokan), avassal of the Ogigayatsu Uesugi, built at Ye Among them were Fujita Toko (1806-1855) and Toda Tadanori,who are not less remarkable as scholars and historians than asadministrators.
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