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This was in 1335. Moreover, the Muromachi shogun was adisciple and patron of the Zen sect of Buddhism, and the priests ofth taken by HojoAkazome Emon, authoress of Eigwa MonogatariAkechi Mitsuhide (1526-82), soldier under Nobunaga; goes over to theM But Ieyasu did not contemplate any such sequence ofevents.

All these railways may besaid to have been built with domestic capital. ies ofcentral Japan, and he located the exterior nobles--many of them withlargely reduced domains--in districts of power, believing confidently that theImperial succession would be secured to Kameyama and his directdescendants. Some historians maintain that his primepurpose was to find occupation for the vast host of soldiers who hadbeen called into existence in Japan by four centuries of almostcontinuous warfare.