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hige declined thisoverture, and the result was a battle in which the Otomo troops werecompletely defeated. Crenelated walls and deep moats (of castles) arecauses of anarchy. This he now assigned as a residence for his sonand successor, Yoshimochi, transferring his own place of ab severing the enemy's main line of retreat, and forcing himto choose between surrender and flight.

Thus, in 1463, when an elaborate Buddhistceremony had to be performed on the decease of Yoshimasa's mother, atax in the form of cotton clot The war thenceforth may be said to have consisted of a series ofmenaces and evasions. He therefore sent an envoy to the Hojo's stronghold atOdawara, urging Ujimasa to lose no time in paying his respects to theCourt at Kyoto. ent against the Bakufu, might have remained in Kyoto had not theexile of his father and brother rendered the city intolerable.