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His favourite sayings afford perhaps the bestindex that we possess to his disposition:-- Man's life is like a long journey toiling under a heavy burden. That instance was Taira noKiyomori, whose example should have been deterrent to a Minamoto. ewing fete which will live in the pages of history as moresumptuous and more magnificent than the hitherto unrivalledfestivities of Yoshimasa. One fact which does not seem to have been sufficiently considered byannalists is that during the sixteenth century the taste for foreignadventure had grown largely in Japan.

' Sermons preached in Portuguese or Latin to a Japanese audience onthe island of Hirado in the year 1550 can scarcely have attractedintelligent interest. The great Japanese historian, Rai Sanyo, compared theBakufu of that time to a tree beautiful outwardly but worm-eaten atthe core, and By these means hills werelevelled, swamps reclaimed, and embankments built, so that the wholeaspect o At the pass of Cho-ryung a reunion waseffected.