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His Majesty still refrained from thedangerous step of giving a written commission to Nobunaga, but heinstructed Munetsugu to carry to the Owari chieftain a suit of armourand a sword. It was now that his love of luxuryand splendour assumed its full dimensions. Takigawa Kazumasu was nominated kwanryo of the Kwanto, chiefly inorder to watch and restrain the movements of the Hojo family, now theonly formidable enemy of Nobunaga in the east. The Bakufu rendered aid on a munificent scale,but the price of rice naturally appreciated, and although thisbro

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