ismMourning colour, white, earlier, black; customs; periods of, varyingwith rankMoxa, medicinal herb, touch of, defilementMu Hsi, painterMukden, Russian railway through; battle of (1905)Muko, Fukuhara harbourMukuhara, Buddhist temple atMulberry, early culture; used with hemp to make cloth; order forcultivation (472 A. The multifarious duties entrusted toofficials over whom the o-rusui presided required a large number anda great variety of persons to discharge them, but these need not beenumerated in detail here. The sovereign acquiesced; he had nochoice. In fact, at a councilheld to consider this matter, he proposed to cross the water at thehead of one hundred and fifty thousand men, handing over theadministration of affairs in Japan to Ieyasu.
He controlled the provinces of Mikawa, Totomi, and Suruga,which lie along the coast eastward of Owari, and he represented oneof the most powerful families in the country. These words are said to have profoundly moved Yasutoki. Thus, on thethirteenth day after Nobunaga's death, the head of his assassin wasexposed in Kyoto in front of the temple of rophe, the shogun's entourage contrived to obtain theappointment of Ii Kamon no Kami to the post of prime minister inYedo.
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