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throne more than three monthsbefore the commission of sei-i tai-shogun was conveyed to Yoritomo byspecial envoys. i house by adoption,until ultimately Yoshinaga committed suicide and, the Ouchi familybecoming extinct, Motonari succeeded to all its domains. f 1337, his daring projectbeing the capture, first, of Kamakura, and next, of Kyoto The natureof this gallant enterpri Kojima Takanori, too, commonly known as Bingo noSaburo, was about to raise the banner of loyalty when the false newsof Masashige's death reached him.

pects that a man repairing thitherat daybreak could scarcely count on obtaining access by evening-fall. Gambling, also, prevailed widely during the Muromachi epochand was carried sometimes to great excesses, so that samurai actuallystaked their arms and armour on a cast of the dice. opentrading marts, or grant concessions to any third nationality; andthey included the right to build some six cre), the proceeds being devoted to specialpurposes, as, for example, to defray the cost of grand ceremonials orof new edifices.