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or a deviation from, tradition and precedent, weshould rather count ourselves fortunate if our enemy, in the nextna hat his example exercised an ennobling influence not onlyon the men of his era but also on subsequent generations. In thus acting, Yorimichi obeyed the policy from which his family hadnever swerved through many generations, and which had now become anunwritten law of the State. anto under theguardianship of Uesugi Noriaki as shitsuji, and the oldadministrative machinery of the Hojo was revived in the main.

Kamakura certainly hastopographical advantages. Immediately they set theirforces in motion, advancing by land and water with an army said tohave numbered twenty thousand and a fleet of transports and war-junkstotalling seven thousand. He dropped his bow into the seaduring the naval engagement, and when he essayed to pick it up, someTaira soldiers hooked his armour with a grapnel. rom which nothing enabled it to emerge except thecombined labours of Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu.