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Thesituation soon changed however. Even more renown attached toFujiwara no Toshinari, whose nom de plume was Shunzei, and who earnedthe title of the Matchless Master. As men got along in years they had masses said for the prolongationof their lives,--with an increase in the premium each year for suchlife insurance. He seems to have conceived a hope that hisgenerals would find goals for their ambition in Korea or China, andwould exhaust their strength in endeavouring to realize their dreams.

For it did so become. But beforethis intention could be carried out, Yoshitatsu died (1561), and hisson, Tatsuoki, a man of little resource or ability, had to bear theonset from Owari. They did not, indeed, labour underany delusion as to the ultimate direction in which their reformstended, but they were determined to move gradually, notprecipitately. He therefore sent an envoy to the Hojo's stronghold atOdawara, urging Ujimasa to lose no time in paying his respects to theCourt at Kyoto.