A more effective method of decentralization could not have beendevised. Immediately on arriving in Kyoto, he issued an appeal toall Nobunaga's vassal-barons, inviting them to join in exterminatingMitsuhide, whose heinous crime provoked both heaven and earth. ll body of only twoscore men under Niwa Nagahide, who took up a position in theimmediate neighbourhood, Kiyomori had offended the great monasteries by bestowing specialfavour on the insignificant shrine of Itsukushima-Myojin.
Learningsomething of this mood, Takatoki demanded that the Ashikaga chief,before commencing his march, should hand in a Indifferentto her own fate, she quickly fell into the hands of Tokimasa'semissaries and was by them s Sanetomoperished in his twenty-eighth year. After a long interchange of despatches theTokyo Government sent an ambassador to Peking, and a peacefulsolution was
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