Notably incompatible with anyefficient exercise of Muromachi authority was the independence whichthe provincial magnates had now learned to display. But it chanced that among the rear vassals of the Imagawathere was one, Nagauji, who, during many years, had harboured designsof large ambition. But, on theother hand, the local revenues continued to pass through the hands ofthe governors, and in the sa Hisanswer was that he had been merely told to fill up the moat.
Each empire asserted itsclaims with equal assurance, and things remained thus until 1880,when General Grant, who visited Japan in the course of a tour roundthe world, suggested a peaceful compromise. To such extremities were people driventhat cakes made from pine-tree bark served as almost the sole meansof subsiste mperor Nintoku; Buddhist temple,(579); immigrants from Kudara; administration, Settsu-shoku, underDaiho; Chiefly concerned in the compilation of the Dai Nihon-shi were AsakaKaku, Kuriyama Gen, and Miyake Atsuaki.
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