She shaved her head--after the manner ofthe cloistered Emperors--and taking the name of Ni-i-no-ama,virtually assumed charge of the Bakufu administration in associationwith her father, Hojo Tokimasa. **For minute information about party politics and parliamentaryprocedure see the Oriental Series, Vol. econdtime, issued an anti-Christian decree (1568); he granted a site for achurch and a residence at Azuchi on Lake Biwa, wher ce than othersto the Emperor's coronation oath that a broadly based deliberativeassembly should be convened.
The Emperor orders amnesty, pardon, commutation ofpunishments, and rehabilitation. It isnot to be supposed, however, that these high constables andland-stewards were suffered to subject the people within theirjurisdiction to arbitrary or extortionate treatment. A niece of Oda Nobunaga,this lady was the eldest of three daughters whose mother shared thesuicide of her husband, the great general, Shibata Katsuiye. From the legalconsequences of that violence, Sozen was saved by Katsumoto'sintercession at Muromachi, and the alliance (1454) between theHosokawa and the Yamana seemed stronger than ever.
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