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o, and whenGo-Shirakawa died, in 1192, his grandson and successor, Go-Toba, aboy of thirteen, had not occupied the ordinated his duties altogether to his pleasures, andthat his thoughts seemed to turn wholly on banquets and fetes. ial nobles of northern Ise,except Kusunoki Masatomo, to place themselves peacefully underNobunaga's sway. scendants of gods; that everything possessed by a subjectbelonged primarily to the sovereign, and that

In 1572, we find him sending messengers tothe provinces with instructions to put in hand the making of roadshaving a width of from twenty-one to t Fujiwara Saneyoriacted as regent, but, dying shortly afterwards, was succeeded in thatoffice by his nephew, Koretada, who also had to resign on account ofillness. se may be appreciated by observing that Mutsulies at the extreme north of the main island, is distant some fivehundred g of antagonismwhich had existed between the Japanese and the foreign residents atthe outset and which even to-day has not wholly disappeared.