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But slanderers have misled the sovereign andare seeking to destroy the Kwanto institutions. He also inaugurated a new game called uma-gari(horse-hunting); and it is on record that he required the samurai topractise swimming in the sea. ra succeeded to the sixdistricts of Mutsu, which constituted the largest estate in the handsof any one Japanese noble. roupNitta family, Yoritomo's attempt to win; adherents of Southern Court;crushed by Ashikaga Ujimitsu--Yoshiaki (d.

Thougha country be subdued by military force, calamities will soon overtakeit unless it be virtuously governed. ButNobunaga selected Hideyoshi, and the result justified his choice, forduring Hideyoshi's sway Kyoto enjoyed such tranquillity as it had notknown for a century. But the incident was also opportune. The contrast between the Japan of the middle of the sixteenth andthat of the middle of the seventeenth century has often been made bythe historian of foreign influence.