ABSTRACT
The will of Saga II. provided that future Emperors were to be taken alternately from the respective lines of his two sons, Fukakusa II. and Kameyama, while the bulk of his landed property was to be assigned for the support of ex-Emperors. In the Kwanto things were indeed going from bad to worse with startling rapidity. The two chief commanders of the Bakufu armies lately dispatched from Kamakura to hold Kyoto, had been Nagoshi Takaie and Ashikaga Takauji. Within ten days from the date of that defection the Kwanto was in a blaze of insurrection. Kameyama, as a mere paterfamilias, must have been sadly put to it by the problem of how to make ends meet. Finding the Emperor had escaped, Asawara sat down on the Imperial couch and comrriitted hara-kiri there. There was another attempt to assassinate an Emperor in his bed-room in 1444.
