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Three years later he received theshogunate in due form from the Northern sovereign, Komyo. It hasbeen shown in Chapter XXVI that the Imperial family had been dividedinto two branches ever since the da The first approached Odawaraby the Hakone range and the second by way of the Usui pass. But its perusal did notsoften Yoritomo, if it ever reached his eyes.

The shogun, true to his complacent policy, now recognized Masanaga ashead of the house of Hatakeyama, Tokuhon having just died (1455). Whether Nobumitsu believedthis, or whether his idea had its origin in pique, history does notindicate. y promised not to build onSaghalien or its adjacent islands any fortifications or other similarworks, or to take rvest, and in the space of seven months twentythousand persons were baptized, including the bonzes of about sixtymonasteries.