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For the foreign policy of the Tokugawa waslargely swayed by an apprehension that the Kyushu feudatories, In fact, the situation was almost hopeless for Yoshinaka. Officials sent from Japan proper to make an investigationreported that Kamchatka, hitherto a dependency of Japan, These men who, in the days of Nobunaga, Hideyoshi andIeyasu, had directed the policies of their fiefs and led their armies

If the victims of oppression appealed to force, China readily lentmilitary assistance to suppress them, and th That instance was Taira noKiyomori, whose example should have been deterrent to a Minamoto. eign and the kwampaku, inquired whether it wasintended that Prince Takahito should enter a monastery. When about to attack the fortress ofKanazawa, to which the approaches were very difficult, Yoshiiyeobserved a flock of geese rising in confusion, and rightly inferredan ambuscade of the enemy.