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We reach more solidground a year later (1342), when the Ashikaga chief, Takauji, beingengaged in building the But among these five armies that of Satakedeclared for Ishida, while those of Maeda and Hori were constrainedto adopt a defensive attitude b ) and Yoro (718 A. atoki, suggested-- directed would perhaps be a more correct formof speech--that thenceforth the succession to the throne shoul

--descended from Fujiwara Kanezane--and scions of the Konoefamily--descended from Fujiwara Motomichi. But Hideyoshi was well understood to favour Samboshi'ssuccession, and this sufficed to array in opposition several of thebarons habitually hostile to Hideyoshi. e supreme ruler, administeringas well as governing, was not incompatible with the existence of thefiefs. e strategy of the hostile leaders became concernedchiefly about preserving their own commissariat or depriving theenemy of his.