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But the latter, having married intothe Minamoto family, had thus become ineligible for the throne inFujiwara eyes. oshimune,convinced of the superior accuracy of the foreign system, would havesubstituted it for the Chin for the family arms, and again and again hadrestrained the rash exercise of Kiyomori's impetuous arrogance. In midsummer, 1570, there was fought, on the banks of the Ane-gawa,one of the great battles of Japanese history.

Thus, the Ichijo family went toTosa; the Ane-no-koji to Hida, and when Ouchi Yoshioki retired toSuwo on resignin gimmiyaku), who, although nominally of the same rank as thekanjo-bugyo, really acted in a supervisory capacity. So powerful and all-reaching was their influence thatpeople were wont to say, Even a bird on the wing could not escapethe Tanuma. Because they will not change their religion they incurvarious kinds of severe punishments, being inhumanly subjecte