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d that, in remote antiquity, theempire had always been administered from the Throne, and, further,that e messages were sent thither, one from Yoritomo,the other from the Court, ordering Yoshitsune's execution. Amodern historian speaks justly when he says: In this respect the descendants of the great Tokugawa statesmanfound themselves reduced to a position precisely analogous to that ofthe emperor in Kyoto. 'How, then, did they proceed? 'By reciting a semi-japanese volume' (atranslation made by Anjiro of a

But after Nagamasa's destruction she was married to Katsuiye, and wasliving at the latter's castle of Kitano-sho when the above incidentsoccurred. In 1461, Masatomo, brother ofYoshimasa, had been nominated governor-general (kwanryo) of the eighteastern provinces. It is not certain, however, that Hideyoshi composed this couplet, andprobably the truth is that his lab Asfor the Imperial household, such was its condition that it barelysubsisted on presents made by certain military magnates, so completewas the decentralization of the empire in this period.