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The friars were quick totake up arms for temporal purposes, but sectarian aggressiveness wasvirtually unknown until Nichiren undertook to denounce everyonediffering from his views. This bigoted measure, spoken of as the prohibition of heterodoxy, did not produce the desired effect. At this time the military nobles came tothe city only to fight, and the city's population melted away. ); in war on Asakura and Asai; alliance withShingen; defeats Takeda; threatened; in Komaki war; peace withHideyoshi; against

In this strait, Go-Shirakawa, whose record is one long series ofundignified manoeuvres to keep his own head above water, appliedhimself to placate Yoshinaka while privately relying on Yoritomo. The metal thus reserved is said to have amounted to160,000 ryo. * Since that drastic step wastaken, events seem to have fully justified it. In modern timesthe ethics of the bushi have been analysed under the name bushido (the way of the warrior), but of course no such term or any suchcomplete code existed in ancient days.