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Imagawa Ryoshun was recalled(1396), and thenceforth Kyushu became the scene of almost perpetualwarfare which the Muromachi authorities were powerless to check. When, however, suchrecommendations are not adopted, they cannot be made a second timeduring the same session. In those records we read that the first thingPrince Andrew did after his baptism was to convert the chief templeof his c Thetower was of wood, and had, therefore, no capacity for resistingcannon.

In fact, Nichiren's methods partookof those of the modern Salvation Army. unless he happened to be a military man with asufficient force of armed retainers (kenin) to assert his authority. In the capitalhis overbearing conduct had alienated the shogun, Yoshitane, and fromthe south a hostile army was approaching. a majority of these, having embraced the alien creedfor light reasons, discarded it readily under menace of destruction.