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This reform had the effect not only of lightening theburden upon the Bakufu income, but also of opening high offices toable men without regard to their private fortunes. ly supporting the SouthernCourt; passing over to the side of the Ashikaga, and losing theirplaces in his The first to essaythat task was Teika. Five years afterwards he received afief of one hundred thousand koku and the title of Hyuga no Kami.

Go-Daigo fled to Hiei, carrying the sacred insignia withhim, and on the 24th of February, 1336, the Ashikaga armies marchedinto the Imperial capital. In a memorial to the Throne he recounted the loyal servicehe had rendered to his sovereign and father, and concluded with thesewords:In spite of all this I have unwittingly offended. -rice was lent tothem in the spring by the regent's order, they undertaking to repayit in the autumn. s; securedfishing-rights for Japanese subjects along the coasts of the seas ofJapan, Okhotsk, and Bering; laid down that the e