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But being at last severely wounded and recognizing thehopelessness of resistance, he set fire to the temple and committedsuicide, his fourteen-year-old son, Katsunaga, perishing with him. The Kusunoki family stood for everything loyal and devoted inthe bushi's record, and Masanori was a worthy chief of the sept. Very soon manybushi flocked to the Imperial standard and Funanoe was stronglyentrenched. On the contrary, everything goes to show that he would haveassociated himself with his father's conspiracy had he not deemed thetime premature and the method clumsy.

Prince Morinaga, thesometime lord-abbot of Hiei-zan, was nominated commander-in-chief(tai-shoguri), and for the sake of Kaneiye's opportunity had now come. ontest wascontinued until 1551, when Ujiyasu, grandson of Soun, drove UesugiNorimasa from his castle of Hirai in Kotsuke. RULES FOR THE IMPERIAL COURT AND COURT NOBLESIn the same month of the same year there was promulgated a body