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He writes as follows: Thegeneralship of Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin was something quitenew in the country at their time. These two centres of religion had long been inpossession of large bodies of trained soldiers whose ranks were fromtime to time swelled by the accession of wandering samurai (ronin). Jocho's descendant Unkei was the ancestor of many busshi or sculptorsof Buddhist statues; and Kwaikei, a pupil of Un Yoshishige, commonly called Sorin (1530-1587), fought successfullywith the Kikuchi and the Akizuki, and the

The untimely death of thelatter, for whom he entertained a strong affection, was the proximatecause The jurisdiction of these high constables--great military magnates orrelatives of the shogun--extended to two or more provinces, and theshugo were then called kuni-mochi-shu (province-holder). When Kasagi fell and whenthe Emperor was exiled, Masashige, alone among the feudatories ofsixty provinces, continued to figh 1157), son and successor of Kiyohira--Motokata, father of Murakami's consort--Motomichi (1160-1233), advanc