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1469, thelady Tomi's four-year-old son, Yoshihisa, should be officiallydeclared heir to the shogunate. This vast domain descended to his son Motohira, and to thelatter's son, Hidehira, whose name we shall presently find in largeletters on a page of Japanese history. During twenty days a perpetual roundof pastimes was devised for the entertainment of the sovereign andthe Court nobles--couplet composing, music, football, boating,dancing, and feasting. ith (1873);treaty (1875); Chinese activity in, 699-700; independence recognizedby 1895 treaty; Russian aggression; Japan's interests i

1493), large estate, succession; kwanryo--Yoshitoyo (d. Article LXXVI. Moreover, the Muromachi shogun was adisciple and patron of the Zen sect of Buddhism, and the priests ofth Hewould divide the Minamoto power by way of preliminary to supplantingit.