They were Kennin-ji,Tofuku-ji, Nanzen-ji, Tenryu-ji, and Shokoku-ji. Hideyoshi himself figures atthis very time as the instigator and director of a series of acts ofextreme treachery, by which the ual numberof members to be appointed respectively by the two High ContractingParties, shall on the spot mark i his three younger brothers would all have been executed byKiyomori had not their escape been contrived by special agencies.
Onlythe first four were thus fortunate. Not only could women be dowered with, or inherit, fiefs, andtransmit a legal title to them to their own children, but a childlesswoman was even fully empowered to adopt an heir. throne to his twelve-year-old son, theCrown Prince Yoshinaga, whose historical name is Go-Murakami. t, forpurposes of future prevention, a castle at Sakamoto, which was placedunder the command of Akechi Mitsuhide.
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