ABSTRACT
At the date of Daigo II.’s escape to Yoshino the Empire was in a state of comparative tranquillity. The Southern Court lost no time in appointing its own local officials and in dispatching emissaries commissioned to raise troops and punish the “rebels ” in every direction. Meanwhile the Southern Court had sustained a more serious loss in the person of the brilliant young Kitabatake Akiiye, the Governor of Mutsu. The accompanying map, which is such as appears in most Japanese historical atlases, will convey a rough general idea of the situation. The loss of their traditional customs by the Kuge, however, was of much less consequence than the loss of their patrimonial acres. If the Muromachi Bakufu gained at the expense of the Imperial law courts in the capital, it rapidly got shorn of its influence in the provinces.
