Out ofthe five hundred manors of the Taira, one hundred and fifty weregiven to Yoshinaka and Yukiiye, and over two hundred prominent Tairaofficials were stripped of their posts and their Court ranks. e flag of revolt andbecame the instrument of starting a tumult in which eighteen thousandbuildings were destroyed in Osaka. that when thematter was reported in Yedo, the shogun signified that his Majestymight consult his own judgment. The armada began by attackingTsushima and Iki, islands lying in the strait that separates theKorean peninsula from Japan.
hing thence eastward into Kotsuke, obtained theallegiance of the Ashikaga of Shimotsuke and of the Takeda of Kai. An envoy from NewSpain (Mexico) had obtained permission for this survey, but when themariner (Sebastian) and t Yorinobu did not wait for his associates. It is true, as we shall presently see, that the resultingcomplications involved the destruction of the Hojo; but it is alsotrue that they plunged the nation into a fifty years' war.
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