Hewould divide the Minamoto power by way of preliminary to supplantingit. n creeds must betreated as courteously as the disciples of Buddhism and must enjoythe same privileges. His motive, however, has beenvariously interpreted. During these eight months of warfare, the Government putsixty-six thousand men into the field, and the casualties on bothsides totalled thirty-five thousand, or thirty-three per cent, of thewhole.
d order into cover behind the primitive fortifications of Mizuki raised for TenchiTenno by Korean engineers six centuries before. Bandits raidedthe capital, broke into the palace itself, set fire to it, andcommitted frequent depredations unrestrained. INTERCOURSE WITH RYUKYUJapanese annals say that the royal family of Ryukyu was descendedfrom the hero Minamoto Tametomo who w But even for one constitutionally so cautious, the pretensions of theTaira became intolerable.
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