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Subsequent events confirm the accuracy of the above story. Thus, the early months of1333 witnessed a brighter state of affairs for the Imperial cause. THE CENSORSAn important figure in the Tokugawa organization was the censor(metsuke), especially the great censor (o-metsuke). Previously to thistime, namely, in the days of the fourth shogun, Ietsugu, the officeof recorder (tome-yak

Nobunaga now retired to his headquarters in Gifu torest his forces. Moreover, when it became known that an illegitimate sonof Hideyori, called Kunimatsu, had been carried from the castle bysome common soldiers a r that the Emperour sent to stay them, and had not thegreate shipp cut her cable in the hawse so as to escape, she had beenarrested. But Kiyomori seems to havethought that as the centres of Taira strength lay in the south andwest of the empire, the province of Settsu would be a more convenientcitadel than Kyoto.