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)INDEXAbdication, Shomu; Fujiwara policyAbe, Princess, becomes Empress KokenAbe family and Nine Years' Commotion; Minister His love of literature wasabsorbing, and he studied earnestly, taking the priests of the FiveTemples as his teachers. Whenthe second Ashikaga shogun, Yoshiakira, recognized that his days werenumbered, he summoned his trusted councillor, Hos y discredited, was constrained to follow his mother, Masa's,advice, namely, to take the tonsure and retire to the monasteryShuzen-ji in Izu.

Kyoto was laid in ruins, and rare books lay on theroadside, no one caring to pick them up. n heirloom from the time of Hachiman(Yoshiiye), transmitted through the hands of Yoritomo's spouse, Masa. Gradually he was enveloped, and being wounded in ten places he, withhis brother and sixty followers, entered the precincts of a templeand died by their own hands. nfession, was finally put to death on the ground that inteaching the method of attacking a fortress he used drawings of YedoCastle.