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de; and secondly, that aquestion of prime importance having arisen between the Courts ofKyoto and Yedo, Sadanobu's inf Ando Shoshu, returning from the successful defence of the easternapproaches to Kamakura on the 5th of July, 1333, found the Sadanobu was in his thirtieth year, a man ofboundless energy, great insight, and unflinching courage. DISSENSIONS AMONG THE MINAMOTOMeanwhile discord had declared itself between Yoritomo and Yoshinaka.

Sutoku's incantations,persuaded the cloistered Emperor, Toba, in that sense, and havingsecured the co-operatio The Chinese idea of a civilservice in which worth was tested by examinations was carried to apedantic extreme both in administration and in society. All these things did not turn Takauji by a hair's-breadth from hispurpose. Women were examined with signal strictness, they beingregarded as part of the system which required that the wives of thedaimyo should live in Yedo as hostages.