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iving sons, fell into the hands of Taira Munekiyo andwas carried by the latter to Kyoto, for execution, as all suppos Efforts were then made to approach Honda, but he wasconveniently absent on account of his health, and the ensu Highwaymen were frequentlyemployed as spies and scouts. On his return to the Kwanto, Ujinoriwas ordered to defend the castle of Nira-yama with seven thousandmen, and he soon found himself attacked by fifty thousand under sevenof Hideyoshi's generals.

Throughout thesixty years of their sway (1224-1284), the Japanese nation wasgoverned with justice* and clemency rarely found in the r In this emergency he acted with hisusual talent. Up to the time of the third shogun(Iemitsu), the duty of reading aloud the laws at the solemnceremonial of the new shogun's investiture d Over seven hundred Russian deadwere buried by the Japanese, and into the latter's hands fellsixty-eight cannon of all calibres with ten machine-guns.