ornado of mostdestructive force, so that superstitious folk, who abounded in thatage, began to speak ominously of the city's doom. Surely the Court is inerror? Still the whole country belongs to the sovereign. This terriblestate of affairs was due to the civil wars which had entered theirmost violent phase in the Onin era (1467-1468), and had continuedwithout intermission ever since. But Mitsukuni and his collaborators did not give prominence to thisfeature.
It was on this occasion that Go-Daigo changed Nagataka'sname to Nagatoshi, and conferred on him the title of captain of theLeft guards (saemon-no-jo). Originally the Taira mansions were at thetwo Fukuhara, one on the north of Kyoto, the other on the south, thecity being dominated from these positions. , and thenceforth the shogun becamepractically deaf and dumb so far as events outside the castle wereconcerned. If the ancient prohibitions are not maintained, somehow orother innovating schemes will be formed.
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