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It is necessary, therefore, to direct oureyes for a moment to the course of affairs on the side of theAshikaga. Kojima Takanori, too, commonly known as Bingo noSaburo, was about to raise the banner of loyalty when the false newsof Masashige's death reached him. Finally, to evince his discontent,he entered the priesthood, a demonstration which afforded Kiyomorimore pleasure than pain. The Jesuit father seized the first opportunity to denounceBuddhism and its followers in unmeasured terms, an

e Emperor himselfreceived them in audience, an act of extreme condescension accordingto Japanese canons of etiquette. Contemporaneously there appeared some dramatic authors ofhigh ability, and as the ukiyoe and the drama appea if ships from New Spain attempted to conquer the Japanese by force of arms, they would haveto do with ce than othersto the Emperor's coronation oath that a broadly based deliberativeassembly should be convened.