Takatoki, hearing of this, summoned two rival troupes of Dengakuplayers to Kamakura and witnessed their performances without regardto the passage of time. Immediately oncoming into power, he moved a large army against the castle ofNagashino in the province of Mikawa, one of Ieyasu's strongholds. sterical loyalty, and the shrine at Ise being dedicatedto the progenitrix of the country's sovereigns, it seemed to NishinoBuntaro His will had not been consulted atall by the Taira when they carried him off; nor would the will of achild of six have possessed any validity in such a matter.
Hedevoted himself to consolidating the system founded by hisgrandfather, Ieyasu, and he achieved remarkable success by theexercise of exceptional sagacity and determination. Consequently the Bakufu prime ministerwrote privately to the Kyoto prime minister, Takatsukasa Sukehira,pointing out the inadvisability of the proposed step. Three of them, travelling by junk from Spain to Macao,were driven from their course and landed at Tanegashima, a smallisland off the south of Kyushu. In three years he wasdeposed by Go-Shirakawa with Kiyomori's co-operation, and Takakura(eightieth sovereign) ascended the throne in 1169, occupying it until1180.
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