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By this victory the maritime route to China lay open to Japan. RAISING OF A LOYAL ARMYKusunoki Masashige had but five hundred men under his command when heentrenched himself at Akasaka. the expediency of Hideyori'ssuccession, and that he exercised that power in the interests of theTokugawa family, not of the Toyotomi. On the following day,Japan intimated her frank acquiescence, and Russia lost no time intaking a similar step.

f Musashi, Sagami, Awa, and Kazusa; the vetoagainst the construction of ocean-going ships was rescinded ers, Yorichika and Yorinobu, renderedmaterial assistance in securing the supremacy of the great Fujiwarachief, Michinaga. 1159), called Shinzei, Go-Shirakawa's adviser; killed--Michitaka (953-95), regent--Momokawa (722-79), privy counc Then the division of the Ashikaga into the Muromachimagnates and the Kamakura chiefs brought two sets of rulers upon thesame stage, and