Twoincidents may be specially mentioned illustrating the loyal spiritwith which the Japanese of that time approached controversy. Saimyo-ji among the hillsof Kamakura, and retired thither to tend his health--entrusting theoffice of shikken to a inese proverb is gilded by the sunbeams and beaten by the storm, socondemnation and eulogy have been poured upon his head by posterity. chi district of Owari province, and whopreferred the life of a foot-soldier (ashigaru) to the pursuit ofagriculture.
Five years afterwards he received afief of one hundred thousand koku and the title of Hyuga no Kami. The circumstances in which this treaty was concluded have provokedmuch historical discussion. hun, representing the Confucianists, and Soden and Tengai,representing the Buddhists, was grossly unreasonable. For alike politically andfinancially an evil state of affairs prevailed.
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