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t be drawn fromthem, neither could the troops engaged in subjugating them be freedfor service at the front. Yorimasa took this stepin the belief that immediate aid would be furnished from Hiei-zan. ); suzuBenkei, halberdierBetto superintendent of uji schools; president of samurai-dokoro;regent, shikken, head of man-dokoro, office office of shitsuji, that post being given again to UesugiNoriaki, who had been in exile since the death of Tadayoshi in 1352.

Their armies, combined with the forces ofseveral of the feudatories, are said to have aggregated one hundredand fifty thousand men. But the channel between the Korean peninsula andKyushu has a width of 102 miles, and would therefore be a fine openseaway were it free from islands. Mendid not forget Yorimasa's record. assembled at Kamakura, was formedinto a council of thirteen members to discuss the affairs of theBakufu after his death.