The Court nobles, withtheir wives and children, had to seek shelter and refuge within theImperial palace, the fences of which were broken down and thebuildings sadly dilapidated. As for the throne, its chiefly remarkable feature wasthe brevity of its occupation by successive sovereigns: and to theBuddhist and Shinto temples was entrusted the duty of keeping anaccurate census of their parishioners. In several provincesofficial nominees of both Courts administered simultaneously, and menwere requisitioned for aid, to-day, to the Northern cause, to-morrow,to the Southern.
On theoccasion of a dispute between two of his vassals about the boundariesof a manor, the defeated litigant bribed one of Nobunaga's principalstaff-officers to appeal for reversal of the judgment. illion did; at the close of thatcentury the figure was found to have decreased by more than fiftythousands of cho. The creed of the Kemmu era was that the usurping buke(military families) had been crushed and that the kuge (Courtnobility) had come to their own again. Then, with Ono Harunaga, she formed aplot to kill Katsumoto and to draw the sword against the Tokugawa.
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