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simply at asserting his ownpotentiality and had no thought of plunging the empire into a newcivil war. NeitherGo-Shujaku nor Go-Reizei could check the abuse. Virtually the whole empirewas drawn into the turmoil, and independent fighting went on atseveral places simultaneously. In whatever arts of deception Ishidaexcelled, Ieyasu was at least his equal; while in the matter ofl

His last days were tormented by the thought that all hisskill as an organizer and all his power as a ruler were incompetentto devise a system such as would secure the succession to his child. i feudatories should be released from the sentenceof confinement passed on them by Ii Kamon no Kami. But in thesubsequent distribution of rewards, Yoshitomo's claims received scantconsideration, his merits being underrated by Shinzei. On the 7th of February, 1703, forty-seven bushi, under theleadership of Oishi Yoshio, forced their way into the mansion of KiraYoshihide