The Ouchi Clan and their Smuggling (4)

     Ouchi Yoshihiro (1356-1399) sent troops to the Korean Peninsula into Gyeonsang Province in response to Goryeo’s summons for help.  Goryeo later sent an appreciation mission to Yoshihiro.  Yoshihiro asked for  the Tripitaka or Palman Daejanggyeong in return.  The Muromachi Shogunate seemed to have connived their direct exchanges, regarding the Ouch Clan as an agency with Korea.

     Being afraid of the Ouchi Clan’s power, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358-1408), the third shogun of the Muromachi Shogunate, provoked Yoshimitsu to rebel against Yoshimitsu himself, and killed him at Sakai in 1399.  Yoshimitsu built Kinkaku-ji Temple, Shokoku-ji Temple, Rokuo-in Temple, and etc.  He might have built as many temples as his plots.

     After Yoshihiro’s death in the Oei Incident, the shogunate appointed his youngest brother, Hiroyo, as the guardian samurai of Suo, Nagato, and etc. Provinces, but Morimi (1377-1431), another younger brother of Yoshihiro who was elder to Hiroyo, defeated and killed Hiroyo in Nagato Province in 1401.  Morimi kept sending missions to Korea until 1423.