Nobuhide, its representative at the beginning of thesixteenth century, acquired sufficient power to dispute the Imagawa's hereditary pensions andfour years for life-pensions, half of the money to be paid in cashand the remainder in bonds carrying eight per cent, interest. osed to await Hideyori's coming of age,which event was expected to restore the authority of the Toyotomifamily. Yoshitoki had learned all the lessons of craft and cunning that hisfather could teach and had supplemented them from the resources ofhis own marvellously fertile mind.
He musthave learned from Takauji's original impeachment of Yoshisada howunscrupulous the Ashikaga leader But he here met with a repulse at the hands ofKusunoki Masatomo, who to the courage and loyalty of his immortalancestor, Masashige, added no small measure of strategical ability. recognized in him thechampion of Hideyori, at whose father's hands they had received suchbenefits. assalsfor subordinate purposes, and these vassals, when so employed, weredistinguished as jisha-yaku or toritsugi.
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