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Togashi Masachika
Togashi Masachika was the military governor of Kaga province in Japan. He won control of the province with the help of True Pure Land believers but then turned against them. In 1488 a league of believers, the Ikko-ikki, rose against him, besieged his castle and drove him to suicide, after which the leagues ruled Kaga for nearly a century.
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