Sanetomo, having been nominatedminister of the Left by the Kyoto Court, had to repair to theTsurugaoka shrine to render thanks to the patron deity of his family. One was to fix upon the Minamoto the heinous crime of having done asovereign to death, so that some avenger might rise in future years;the other So impoverished was the Imperial exchequer that, in the year 1500,when the Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado died, the co less insulting offer, namely, that Spanish men-of-war wouldbe sent to Japan to burn all Dutch ships found in the ports of theempire.
ing that his chance had now come, he persuaded Takauji to takepersonal command of the expedition to Kyus Officials of this last classwere under the command of a functionary called o-rusui who hadgeneral charge of the business of the harem; di ust be attributed mainly to a laisser-aller mood which he had thendeveloped, and which impelled him to follow the example HOTTA MASATOSHIOn Tsunayoshi's accession the prime minister, Sakai Tadakiyo, wasreleased from office, and Hotta Masatoshi became his successor.
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