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Its president was called betto; itsvice-president, rei; there were secretaries, a manager (shitsuji),whose functions were mainly financial, and certain minor officials. The malcontents in Yoritomo's camp or his discomfited opponents beganto transfer their allegiance to placed in possession of much largerestates, which were to be entrusted in the meanwhile to the keepingof one of the four barons mentioned above. Thusinsensibly the influence of the Court waned day by day and that ofthe military waxed.

In 1396, thehead of the family--Chikayo--held the office of tandai of Kyushu. In the eighth century, when the great temple,Todai-ji, was established at Nara, affiliated temples were builtthroughout the provinces, under the name of Kokubun-ji. nchuria, had consolidated and strengthened her holdupon those provinces, and was bent upon their final annexation. Hidetada, however, objected that human affairs change soradically as to render it impossible to establish universallyr