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This enumerationshows a numerical superiority on the Japanese side, but in fightingcapacity the two fleets were nearly equal. Instructors at the college were chosenamong the descendants of the immortal scholars, Abe no Seimei,Sugawara no Michizane, and others scarcely less renowned. ate positionoccupied by Yoritomo's descendants, and the most trustworthy annalsshow that already while e Nevertheless, he established himselfat Oda, in Hitachi, and being there joined by many of the Ashikaga'senemies, he man

s inhabitants showed great barbarity intheir treatment of castaways from the Ryukyu, or Loochoo, Islands. From that timethe Tokugawa began to fare as nearly all great families of previousages had fared: the substa ryo; urged to become shogun--Shigeuji (1434-97), kuboAshikaga Tadafuyu (1326-1400), son of Takauji, rebels in Kyushu In thinraiment on a winter's night, brave the cold and be reading the wholenight through; with scanty fare on a summer's day, repel hunger andbe learning the whole day long.