century broughtthe Gen-Hei struggle, which plunged the empire into a state ofturbulence and reduced the lower orders to a condition of pitiablemisery. tes Government, theviews of competent men have been taken and have been carefullyconsidered by the shogun. Nevertheless, Kiyomori, having contrived that the childshould be entrusted to his daughter's care, asserted its claims sostrenuously that m The Chinese campaign had exhausted her treasury as well as hersupplies of war material, and it would have been hopeless to oppose acoalition of three great European powers.
ingots in the form of horses, which Hideyoshi had stored inthe treasury of the Osaka castle as a war fund. of Kaya-no-in; but asshe bore him no offspring, he placed in the Toba palace a secondFujiwara lady, Bifuku-mon-in, daughter of Nagazane. e flag of revolt andbecame the instrument of starting a tumult in which eighteen thousandbuildings were destroyed in Osaka. Moronao undoubtedly possessed high strategical ability, and beingassisted by his almost equally competent brother, Moroyasu, renderedsterling military service to the Ashikaga cause.
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