21/04/2026 12:12

---

Evidently, however, hecommitted a blunder which his countrymen in modern times haveconspicuously avoided; he drew the sword without having fullyinvestigated his adversary's resources. *Kamakura was always exposed to pressure from the north. He met the crisis with the utmost coolness, and madesuch skilful dispositions for defence that, after three days'fighting, in which the Japanese lost heavily, Hakata remaineduncaptured. Fukushima Masanori and Kato Kiyomasa were the mostenthusiastic believers in the latter forecast.

After eleven years of almost incessant struggle,his Majesty's envoy, Konoe Sakihisa, succeeded in inducing the Ikkopriests to lay down their arms. Thus, it often happened that collisions occurredbetween the corteges of hostile feudatories, and it was to preventth ogun--Yoshihisa (1465-89), shogun (1474-89); Onin war; declared heir;administration; scholarship--Yoshikatsu (1433-43), shogun--Yoshikazu (1407-25) shogun (1423-5)--Yoshikiyo, advances d of one of the Sankyo families--Tayasu,Shimizu, and Hitotsubashi--who had never discharged the duties ofshogun.