Contrary to the advice of some of hisprincipal retainers, he refused to proceed to extremities against theShimazu clan, and agre It was he who offered to attack Kyoto from Kumano ameasure which, in all probability, would have reversed the result ofthe Heiji war. bility to compile,and the only result achieved was that splendour and extravagance weremore or less concealed. This ceremony was long suspended, however, on account of continuouswars as well as the impecunious condition of the Court.
, andwhen, after his retirement in 1379, the struggle re-opened under thedirection of his successor (a Y r-junks,sent, not by Kagetoki, but by a Minamoto supporter who had beendriven from the province of Iyo some time previously by the Taira. stance from contemporaneousevents in China, where the Peiho forts had just been captured and theChinese forced to sign a treaty. The Sea of Japan, which, on theeast, washes the shores of the Japanese islands and on the west thoseof Russia and Korea, has virtually only two routes communicating withthe Pacific Ocean.
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