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Itwas a wonderful display of patriotic altruism in the case of some, atany rate, of the daimyo. Meanwhile, in Kyoto, things had fared in asomewhat similar manner. To the Imperial family no pity was shown. It was decided to embark the Yuan forcesand start out to sea.

For the final attack Yoshisadadivided his army into three corps and advanced against Kamakura fromthe north, the east, and the west. After eight months of this comparatively fruitlessmanoeuvring, a treaty was concluded, on December the 11th, betweenHideyosh Nevertheless, the fact thatthe Taiko specially exempted the Portuguese merchants from his decreeof bani At the time of Yoshitsune's novitiate in the Kurama temple, thepolitical power in Japan may be said to have be