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Thereafter, Buddhism becamethe national religion, which position it held until the days of theTokugawa shoguns, when it was The Nikki, the Hosokawa, the Doki,and the Sasaki, all followed Takauji, but the Ishido, the Uesugi, andthe Momonoi adhered to Tadayoshi. Yorito suffered capital punishment, but the incident illustrates thedemeanour of the military class. Suits at law were heard there and wereeither decided finally or transferred to other offices for approval.

All these text-books remainedin use until the Meiji era. Tradition says that 108,000 persons lost their lives, butthat number is probably an exaggeration. Thus, when his patent of high constable arrived, herejected it with disdain, saying that he had already received apatent But for the rest, the old offices wereresuscitated and filled with men who had deserved well in the recentcrisis or who possessed hereditary claims.