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LAST HOJO ARMYWhen Kamakura fell the only Hojo force remaining in the field wasthat which had been engaged for months in the siege of Chihaya, whereKusunoki Masashige held his own stoutly. The most uncompromising conservatives of the fiefissued a manifesto justifying their refusal, and, as evidence oftheir sincerity, committed suicide. tious men, strangers to luxury or leisure and solicitous,primarily, to promote the cause of justice and to satisfy the canonsof efficiency. Yoritomo's system ofshogunate; three divisions; entrusted with choice of emperor (1272 &1274); power weakened by Mongol invasion; an

not only obtained an Imperial decree deprivingYoshimi of his offices, but also contrived that, early in Finally, the third class was composed ofthe ryoshu (sometimes known as shiro-nashi, or castleless barons),whose revenues ranged from 10,000 to 100,000 koku. nybeautiful women, so that sensual excesses contributed to thesemi-hysterical condition into which he eventually fell. In 1572, we find him sending messengers tothe provinces with instructions to put in hand the making of roadshaving a width of from twenty-one to t