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When, in after years, thissame Mitsuhide treacherously compassed Nobunaga's death, men saidthat the opening of the Demon's Gate had entailed its due penalty. t erred egregiously in failingto recognize that the day had passed when the military clans could bethus employed as Fujiwara tools. Anyone whose name was not enrolled on one of the above lists fellunder suspicion of embracing the foreign faith. Desperate fighting ensued, but no sensible impression could bemade on the Russian lines, and finally, as a l

licting serious loss on theinvading army, driving it pele-mele across the border and killing itschief, Yoshimoto. nd son to succeed, Yoshimochi himself resumed theoffice of shogun, holding it until his death, in 1428. e Bakufu became alarmed, and mustering an army ofsixty thousand men, sent it under Ko Moronao and his brother,Moroyasu, to attack Masatsura. No Japanese subject shall be arrested, detained, triedor punished, except according to law.