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On his death-bed he issued the necessary instruction,but the Fujiwara deliberately ignored it, being determined that aconsort of their own blood must be the leading lady in every Imperialhousehold. ally, that, though hereditary servants wentto other places and changed their domicile, it should not be lawfulto compel their return. ial conduct, wasfollowed, in 1767, by reforms under the shoqun, Ieharu, when all thelaws and regulations placarded or oth Thusmiserably perished a ruler whose strong hand, active brain, andfearless measures, had he been spared a few years longer, might h

bt, whose decimated garrison held out bravely, but he alsoallowed his movements to be hampered by a sma Headdressed overtures to the Southern Court and they were accepted oncondition that he made formal act of surrender. Then the Bakufu took an extraordinarystep. Muromachi Bakufu, heworshipped at the Iwashimizu shrine of Hachiman, and all hissuccessors in the shogunate followed his example.