He did not know thatthe gods are the authors of every human action, and this ignoranceconstituted a cause of radical difference. His law-court was in his own residence,and under his direction constables (yoriki or doshiri) patrolled thecity. Yoshizumi, the eleventh shogun,who, as related above, fled from Kyoto in 1508, dying three yearslater in exile, left two s Yoshimune had to fly to Echigo with a petty remnant of followers, andYoshioki and Yoshiharu, evacuating Kamakura, took refuge in theKawamura fortress.
During the Kamakura era, the Court magnates continued todespise the Bakufu adherents, and the distance between the capitaland Kamakura imparted to the latter an element of rusticity. He was distinguished, also, bythe fanatical character of his propagandism. In the Muromachi period alone we have such names as Aoki Kaneiye,Myochin Nobuiye, Umetada Akihisa and others. Itnow became his task to bend to his will the overstrong andover-presumptuous among the concerted families of the Ashikaga.
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