Note 19 — LETTER OF IYÉYASŬ

Masashige (first half of fourteenth century), the type of unswerving loyalty to the throne. It is interesting to note Iyéyasŭ's estimate of a hero who died defeated, and whose whole energy had been devoted to preventing the control of the Empire by the shoguns, of whom Iyéyasŭ is the most complete type.