Among thesignatories there were not found any members of the Osaka party. This meant that ifany feudal chief died before reaching his seventeenth year, hisestate was lost to his family. Hideyoshimet this combination with his usual astuteness. His mother received 3000 ryo of gold and 10,000ryo of silver; his brother, Hidenaga, 3000 ryo of gold and 20,000 ofsilver; and his nephew, Hidetsugu, 3000 of gold and 10,000 of silver.
To the ex-Emperor he gave athousand silver coins; fifty pieces of white silk, and a sword, andamong the Imperial princes and Court nobles he distributed tenthousand pieces of silver. Perhaps nothing constitutes a better clue to hisdisposition than the verses he habitually quoted: Life is short; the world is a mere dream to the idle. tion to him, and their military prowesscaused people to speak of them as Yoshinaka's Shi-tenno--the fourguardian deities of Buddhist temples. It became a secondarybasis, Takauji's eight-year-old son, Yoshiakira, being installedthere as governor-general (kwanryo) of the Kw
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