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men against the eastflank at Ikuta; Yoshitsune's lieutenants with twenty thousand menagainst the west at Suma. se may be appreciated by observing that Mutsulies at the extreme north of the main island, is distant some fivehundred This Cabinet was presided over by a premier--necessarily anImperial prince--and by a vice-premier. Sutoku was exiled to Sanuki, and there, during three years, heapplied himself continuously to copying a Buddhist Sutra, using hisown blood for ink.

Arrived at Fukuhara, they devoted a night to praying, making sacredmusic, and reading Sutras at Kiyomori's tomb, wherea THE SHIMONOSEKI COMPLICATIONIf the Satsuma men thus received a conclusive lesson as to thesuperiority of Western armaments, the Choshu fief was destined to besimilarly instructed not long afterwards. Then (1613) the first execution of Japanese converts took place,though the monk himself was released after a short incarceration. e kept so faithfully as to becomethe type of soldierly fidelity for all subsequent generations of hiscountrymen.