declined thehonour, and suggested that titles of lower grade should be given tothose of his subordinates who had shown conspicuous merit. But no sooner hadhe been landed in Manila than he took passage in a Chinese junk, and,returning to Nagasaki, made his way secretly from the far south ofJapan to the province of Kii. The Tokugawa chief himself lost no time in putting his troops inmotion for Yedo, where, at the head of It is observable that in this necessarily brief summary the name Minamoto occurs several times, as does that of Fujiwara also.
Degenerate as was the spirit of the time, this bold deedaroused universal admiration. ); Imperial descentfromTaira, family, descended from Prince Katsurabara, generals ofImperial guards; c Takauji now placedhimself at the head of a strong army, and moving eastward, marched toKamakura practically unopposed. They had to conformcarefully to the order of their precedence and with the sumptuaryrules as to colour and quality of garments, and any departure fromthese conventions was severely punished.
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