The distance from the port of Fusan to theYalu River is four hundred miles, in round numbers, and the roads arevery bad throughout the whole country. ys of Go-Saga (1242-1246), onedescended from his elder son, Go-Fukakusa, the other from hisyounger, Kameyama. The family systemof the time paid no heed to primogeniture. In fact, the 13th of November had been indicated as the probabledate.
led by the Nitta brothers, Yoshioki andYoshimune, as well as by Wakiya Yoshiharu, marched into Musashi anddefeated Takauji on the Kotesashi moor. The records say thatthree thousand of their followers were killed and that among themwere ten general officers. It might have been expected that the Tokugawa shogunswould at least have endeavoured to soften this administrativeeffacement by pecuniary gener Thence he addressed to all the daimyo asecret circular, urging them to revolt and undertaking to makeTadanaga shogun instead of Iemitsu.
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