he obtained a remount from Toshiiye's stable, and,followed by about a hundred samurai, pushed on to Kitano-sho. There was nooffspring of this union, and when, in 1166, Motozane died, he left afive-year-old son, Motomichi, born of his wife, a Fujiwara lady. ethods of evasion, subterfuge, and finesse;great in his use of not one but every means in his power to crush hisenemy They miscalculated thetime required for this operation, and daylight compelled them toabandon the enterprise when its only result had been to disclose tothe invaders the whereabouts of the fords.
It has been suggestedthat Ieyasu designed these Spanish monks to serve as a counterpoiseto the influence of the Jesuits. It was by Ieyasu himself that national thought wasturned into the new channel, though it need scarcely be said t There were spring festivals of sunrise at Sagano and autumn moonlightexcursions to the Oi River. Even his most trusted generals were notexempt from bitter words or even blows, and we shall presently seethat to this fault in his character was approximately due his tragicend.
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