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Munemori, after a vain attempt to secure thealliance of the Hiei-zan monks, had recalled his generals and decidedto retire westward, abandoning Kyoto. It would beunjust to assume that without full testimony such a man sentenced awhole family of his own relatives to be executed. ThereuponHotta Masatoshi, one of the junior ministers, vehementlyremonstrated. It recognized theindependence of Korea; ceded to Japan the littoral of Manchuria lyingsouth of a line dr

ent; and Yoshimitsu, the third ofthe Ashikaga shoguns, showed equal respect towards Gido, Zekkai andJorin, whose advice he constantly sought. It is related that one of the acts of penance performed byMongaku--the monastic name taken by Morito--was to stand fortwenty-one days under a waterfall in the depth of winter. not only obtained an Imperial decree deprivingYoshimi of his offices, but also contrived that, early in time system which recognized the right of property to bevested in the Throne and limited the period of occupation to thesovereign's will.