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acontest which tested both the player's ability to recognize fromtheir odour different varieties of incense and his knowledge ofancient literature. Thenceforth, the great protagonists inthe Kyoto arena were the two factions of the Hosokawa house, l In the Kwanto alone, during these two years,more battles were fought--some of considerable magnitude--than duringthe thirty years between 1455 and 1485 in England. Fortunately, the House ofPeers ranged itself steadfastly on the side of the Cabinet throughoutthis struggle, and thus the situation was often saved from apparentlypressing danger.

Thetwelve-year-old boy was to be invited to Minamoto Tomomasa's mansionand there destroyed. At allevents, when, as stated above, Hideyoshi's message of invitationreached Nobunaga at Azuchi, the latter gave orders for the de Takaujibuilt the temple Tenryu-ji, in Kyoto, and planned to establish agroup of provincial temples under the name of Ankoku-ji. It ledto the death of the shogun, Yoshiteru, and to the issue of anImperial decree proscribing Christianity, Vilela and