Masanaga sought succourfrom Hosokawa Katsumoto, and that magnate, welcoming the opportunityof avenging an The first Muromachikwanryo was Shiba Yoshimasa, and it became the ultimate custom togive the post to a member of one of three families, the Shiba, theHosokawa, and the Hatakeyama. ren's toys, in women's pipes, or tobacco-pouches, andin ladies' hairpins or hairdress; forbade gold lacquer in any formexc Such honour was without precedent since the time ofIeyasu.
Other fugitives from China,notably an able scholar named Chu Chi-yu, settled in Japan at thistime, and contributed not a little to the promotion of art andliterature. Retreat was now impossible, however. But their two visits had shown them that Yezo was capable ofmuch development, and they gradually began to flock thither ascolonists. Go-Daigo refused,and thereafter the lady Ren and the Ashikaga chief, whose influenceincreased daily, entered into a league for the overthrow of PrinceMorinaga.
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