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ing that his chance had now come, he persuaded Takauji to takepersonal command of the expedition to Kyus By means of the shoshidaiall circumstances of the Imperial Court were fully conveyed to theBakufu in Yedo and complete control was exercised over the Imperialcapital and its environs. Thesignatories, however, told a different tale when they returned toJapan, and their feudal chief, the d Restrained, however, by a sense ofinsecurity,* the Minamoto chief declined to leave Kamakura, and sentin his stead a memorial to the Throne.

Mitsukane, when he abetted the Ouchi's attempt to overthrowthe Kyoto shogun, persuaded himself that he was only carrying out hisfather's u For women the worst punishment was to be handed over as servants(yakko) or condemned to shave their heads (teihatsu). Subsequently,after Ouchi Yoshihiro's disaffection and disaster, a Buddhist priestand well-known artist, Soami, acted as Muromachi's Go-Toba seems to have sufferedspecially from his reverse of fortunes.