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stian feudatories, who, regardless of the edicts of the Bakufu,openly preached their faith and were in no wise checked by theToyotomi rulers. s andassigning them to Chinese priests of the Sung and Yuan eras whoreached Japan as official envoys or as frank propagandists. So impoverished was the Imperial exchequer that, in the year 1500,when the Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado died, the co It will be observed from the above tablethat he essayed to hold the balance equally between the families ofhis two sons, the occupant of the throne being chosen from eachalternately.

This lattertown, though originally forming part of the Ashikaga domain,nevertheless assisted the Miyoshi in their attack upon the shogunate. The Ako incident (see p. Hatakeyama family, and in twenty years,Yoshikado and Yoshitoshi of the Shiba sept were each punished andpardoned three times. thusinaugurating a campaign of violence destined to mark the progress ofChristianity throughout the greater part of its history in Japan.