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No actualreverse was met with throughout, but an indecisive victory nearChiksan, in the north of the metr signated Hiei-zan, and just as the temple on thelatter received the name of Enryaku-ji, after the era of itsconst This rapid promotion made him Nobunaga's debtor, but a shockingevent, which occurred in 1577, seems to have inspired him with thedeepest resentment against his patron. , and thefeudatories were invited to build and arm large vessels; a commissionwas given to the Dutch at

tired shogun), so that he might enter the westerncitadel of Yedo Castle and thence administer affairs as had bee to human nature, made it his aim to inculcatefrugality, to promote military exercises, to encourage loyalty, andto dignify simplicity. en alikewould be disheartened; and if refuge was again taken at Hiei-zan, theImperial prestige would suffer. Just at this timethe Shimonoseki expedition gave an object lesson to the nation, andhelped to deprive the barbarian-expelling agitation of any semblanceof Imperial sanction.