emissaries to delay the repair of thecastle of Kiyosu, Nobunaga's headquarters, where a heavy fall of rainhad caused a landslide. Yoshitsune, pleading illness, declined to receive the envoy, and itwas determined at Kamakura that extreme measures must be employed. iwaraTadazane; and failing offspring by her, chose another Fujiwara lady,Bifuku-mon-in, daughter of Nagazane. **For an exhaustive analysis see Brinkley's China and Japan.
Ultimately, the Bakufu solved the situation partially by decreeingthat no lawsuit for the recovery of borrowed money should beentertained--a reversion to the tokusei system of the Ashikagashoguns. cable, lost no time in attacking Tokuhon and driving him fromhis burning mansion, as has been already stated. In the capital the bushi served aspalace guards; in the provinces they were practically independent. There is also on record correspondence that passed between the Bakufupremier, Ii, and certain friends of his in the Imperial capital.
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