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But it chanced that among the rear vassals of the Imagawathere was one, Nagauji, who, during many years, had harboured designsof large ambition. It is relatedthat timbers of sufficient scantling could not be found anywhereexcept in the forests at the base of Fuji-yama, and Ieyasu em e success of his cause; greatin his determination to give decisive battle despite advice offeredto him to resort to m theguarding of the Imperial Court and the Court nobles, at the same timetransacting financial business.

Yoshisada was only thirty-eight at the time of his death (September,1338). ns were discovered tohave conspired for the overthrow of the Tokugawa Government by theaid of foreign troops. In spite of these agreements China's arbitrary and unfriendlyinterference in Korean affairs continued to be demonstrated to Japan. Certainfamily rights imperatively demanding reference to the shogun were notso referred, and Mochiuji not only spurn