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To qualify for this high office a manmust have served as governor of Osaka. The fief of UesugiKagekatsu was reduced from 1,200,000 koku in Aizu to 300,000 koku inYonezawa; and the 800,000 koku of the Satake family in Hitachi wereexchanged for 200,000 koku in Akita. Mitsuhide to convey the intelligence to Mori and to solicithis alliance was intercepted by Hideyoshi's men. The social positions of the two groups were even more rigidlydifferentiated; those of the fifth rank and upwards be

Fromfirst to last he remained the same short-sighted, passion-driven,impetuous despot and finally the evil possibilities o Dowered with all thestrategical skill and political sagacity which his father lacked, hehad won victories This bigoted measure, spoken of as the prohibition of heterodoxy, did not produce the desired effect. Driven out of Kamakura bythe Uesugi, who had hitherto served as manager (shitsuji), they wereobliged to change their domicile to Kog