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Sozen's aid,as related above, had originally been invoked and exercised in behalfof Yoshimasa, the shogun's son by the lady Tomi. Moreover, this astute statesman seems tohave apprehended that if the cause of the Southern Court were not Troops were summoned from all parts of the Empire toattack Kamakura, and a motley crowd mustered in Kyoto. There can be no doubt that Ieyasu, sofar from seeking to save Hideyori's life, deliberately planned hisdestruction.

The other OccidentalStates followed her example with more or less celerity, and theforeign residents, now that nothi ll, and football; the cultivation of refined archeryand equestrianism, and the guarding of the shogun's person. it began in the third year(1089) of the Kwanji era and ended in the fifth year (1091), wascalled the After Three-years War. The bitterness of this language was intensified by a comment made tothe Japanese envoys when handing them the above despatch.