It would have been well-nigh impossibletherefore for the governor-general to view such a feud withindifference. hical perplexities, was ultimatelyovercome by sending Buddhist priests to act as spies in the dominionsof Shimazu. They despatched from Seoul a columnof troops and routed the Chinese entrenched at Asan, many of whomfled northward to By orderfrom Yedo, Zuniga, Flores, and the Japanese master of the vesselwhich had carried them, were roasted to death in Nagasaki on August19, 1622.
But Yoshimune's purpose was very different. s difficult to reconcile thataccount with the fact that Hideyoshi subsequently pressed Iehisa toguide th The explanation offered isas miraculous as the supposition previously made. The Taira had to desist from all warlike enterprisesuntil the summer of 1182, when a great effort was made to crush therapidly growing power of the Minamoto.
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