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This edict of 1616differed from that issued by Ieyasu in 1614, since the latter did notexplicitly prescribe the death-penalty for converts refusing toapostatize. , quoted on Tadatsune's ravages of Kwanto; on Heian epoch;weakening of Fujiwara power; Bushi of Kwanto; Joei c Meanwhile, the shogun, who had been ill for some time, died, and hisdecease was pleaded as a pretext for postponing discussion with theAmericans. * The JapaneseGovernment had then to consider whether it would suffer its authorityto be thus defied by foreign visitors or whether it would resort toextreme measures.

It is generally called the Onin War because thestruggle described commenced in the year-period of that name, butwhereas the Onin pe In one of theengagements, however, Nawa Nagatoshi, who had harboured Go-Daigoafter the flight from Oki, met his death, and the Imperialist forcesgradually dwindled. nature of the office conferred on him by theCourt, and could never exceed the functions of that office or surviveits loss. From the outset the Uesugifamily were the pillars of the Ashikaga kwanryo in Kamakura.