The shogun was not morally incapable, but hisintelligence was completely overshadowed by the devices of Okitsugu,who took care that Ieharu should remain entirely ignorant of popularsentiment. Their arrows were short, measuring littleover a foot, but their bows were powerful, and they seem to havefought with fierce courage. ra succeeded to the sixdistricts of Mutsu, which constituted the largest estate in the handsof any one Japanese noble. Motochikaobeyed, but on the death of Nobunaga and his son he constitutedhimself master of Shikoku until Hideyoshi deprived him of all saveTosa.
Whether this was done of fell purpose or out of hospitality is not onrecord, but it is certain that Tadamune and hi fChugoku, and thereafter he announced his purpose of crossing to Koreaand making that country the basis of a campaign against China. of events, so that while Yoritomo is execrated as aninhuman, selfish tyrant, Yoshitsune is worshipped as a faultlesshero. Soconspicuous were his virtues and so attractive was his personalitythat a samurai of the Akamatsu family, wh
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