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His law-court was in his own residence,and under his direction constables (yoriki or doshiri) patrolled thecity. Of course, nothing was publicly known about the cargo of the Hitachiand her consort, but there could be no question that, in timing theirattack wi It is true that Noriyori himself was unable to make anyfurther incursion into Kyushu so long as his maritime communicationswith his advanced base in Suwo remained at the mercy of the Tairafleet. It was not until the month ofNovember, 1584, that Chosokabe Motochika effectually brought theisland of Shikoku

In these circumstances, Takauji desired to take thefield himself, but since to do so would have exposed Yet a delay of some weeks occurred. Yet its perpetrator showedthat he had carefully studied all the essentials of stablegovernment--careful selection of o Cities and towns hadmunicipal elders (machi-doshiyori), under whom also nanushiofficiated.