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to such an arrangement as this--an arrangementwhich guaranteed nothing except leisure for the mobilization of astrong Chinese army. TheSatsuma feudatory strongly counselled that the shogun should declineto proceed to Kyoto and should reject all proposals for the expulsionof foreigners, but the Bakufu ignored his advice. uld have impaired the interests of the Korean monarch, the latter'speople, counting Japan to be the source At Seoul,with its thirty thousand battlements and three times as manyembrasures, requiring a garrison ninety thousand strong,

diate entourage ofMuromachi, the Hosokawa, the Hatakeyama, the Shiba, and othersengaged in desperate struggles about questions of succession. But Hideyoshi was well understood to favour Samboshi'ssuccession, and this sufficed to array in opposition several of thebarons habitually hostile to Hideyoshi. His will had not been consulted atall by the Taira when they carried him off; nor would the will of achild of six have possessed any validity in such a matter. This Yorimasawas an expert bowman, a skilled soldier, and an adept versifier,accomplishments not infrequently combined in one person during theHeian epoch.