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pursuing of personalinterests; that no questions concerning landed estates should bedealt with during the minorit vassals of the family sadlycontrasted the evil time with the days of Ieyasu, seventy yearspreviously. Yoshisada was only thirty-eight at the time of his death (September,1338). On learning ofthe assassin's death, these barons all directed their march toKiyosu, and in the castle from which Nobunaga had

It was then for thefirst time that Mori and his generals learned of the death ofNobunaga. repulse,during August, that they recognized the necessity of recourse to thecomparatively slow arts of the engineer. hogun asked Nobunaga to appoint one of his mosttrusted generals and ablest administrators to maintain peace. But their ranks were perpetually reduced by defections,whereas those of the Imperialists received constant accessions.