Ashikaga Takauji’s ]izo-Son – Koan 59
No. 59. Ashikaga Takauji’s ]izo-Son (Translator’s note: This story depends on a sort of play on a Chinese character of twelve strokes, which means ‘honoured’ or ‘revered’. It is the first element of the name Taka-uji, the general who founded the Ashikaga shogunate, after a spectacular betrayal of trust of a kind not uncommon in…