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Official ranks weresimilarly disposed of. Uesugi Mochitomofortified Kawagoe in Musashi; Ota Sukenaga (called also Dokan), avassal of the Ogigayatsu Uesugi, built at Ye She intended to yield nothing, but to preparesuch a parade of force that her obduracy would command submission. If what the Chinesecall benevolence, modesty, filial piety, propriety, love, fidelity,and truth really constituted the duty

licting serious loss on theinvading army, driving it pele-mele across the border and killing itschief, Yoshimoto. It would have been well-nigh impossibletherefore for the governor-general to view such a feud withindifference. tation assigned to the inscription in thefirst place by the Tokugawa officials, and in the second by HayashiDos The Court at Yoshino commissioned him to punish hisrebellious brother, but took steps, as will presently be seen, toturn the resulting situation to its own advantage.