〓 Furthermore, the *Dai Nihon Shi* (Great History of Japan), which Tokugawa Mitsukuni of Mito forcibly compiled, definitively labeled the Daikakuji line as the legitimate imperial lineage. This was a foolish attempt to realize direct imperial rule by eliminating the Fujiwara Sekkan-ke, who had devoted themselves to the Hosso school (with its *Goshou Kakubetsu* doctrine) and had appointed successive generations of the Kawachi Genji as Seii Taishogun to suppress the Emishi—the very Emishi of Tohoku who, as inherent outlaws, had backed Chinjufu Shogun Kitabatake Akiie to repeatedly swarm into the Kinai region.

〓 In other words, Mitsukuni's *Dai Nihon Shi* forced the legitimacy onto the Daikakuji line—a lineage that rolled down the slope toward natural extinction after defying the 7th-century Emperors Temmu and Jito (who had established the syncretism of Yamato Shinto, which views Amaterasu Omikami as the imperial ancestor and supreme deity, and the Hosso school). Instead, the Daikakuji line infatuated themselves with the syncretism of Ise Shinto (Watarai Shinto)—which equates Toyouke no Omikami with Amenominakanushi no Kami and Kuninotokotachi no Kami, elevating her to a supreme deity equal to or greater than Amaterasu Omikami—and the Tendai school (*Hokke Ichijo*, or the doctrine of "all sentient beings possess the Buddha-nature" from the *Mahaparinirvana Sutra*).