Nototherwise can we account for the fact that, within the brief periodof eleven years, he undertook and completed five great worksinvolving enormous cost. Yorito suffered capital punishment, but the incident illustrates thedemeanour of the military class. ts as the mostdisturbed period of the country's history and is distinguished by theterm Sengoku Jidai, or the Epoch of Wars. Nominally, the jurisdictionof the two Rokuhara was confined to military affairs, but in realitytheir influence extended to every sphere within Kyoto and to theKinai and the Saikai-do without.
A small number of zealous reformerswished to regard this as a promise of a national assembly, but thegreat majori 76, the system of localgovernment already inaugurated in Japan proper was extended toRyukyu, the ruler of the latter being pensioned. But their skill in using their gunswas such that they never missed. In Kyushu, the Otomoespoused the cause of the Northern Court, and made themselves mastersof Buzen, Bungo, Chikuzen, Chikugo, Hizen, and Higo.
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