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At this stage, an event occurred which probably moved the Governmentto greater expedition. i Strait; atHarima, on the southern shore of the Inland Sea; and at Tsuruga, onthe northwest of the main island. t for such an enterprise a larger measure ofresolution and daring was needed than Kajiwara Kagetoki seemeddisposed to employ. Yoshimasa was conspicuously reckless; he put the tokusei system intoforce thirteen times.

On the eve of his return he found an opportunity ofdealing a heavy blow to the monasteries of Miidera and Nara. In the Kinai and western provinces as well as in theNankai-do, on the other hand, the total tax on wet fields and uplandswas divided into three parts In these newly won provinces Yoritomo placed militarygovernors and nominated to these posts Doi Sanehira and KajiwaraKagetoki, heroes, respectively, of the cryptomeria forest and thehollow tree. Thus, in the year of Ieyasu's decease, his sixth son, MatsudairaTadateru, was deprived of his fief--610,000 koku--and removed fromEchigo to Asama, in Ise.