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The two Courts perpetually made Kyototheir objective. These masters ofceremonies are not to be confounded with the chamberlains (soshaban)already spoken of. Kokyo threw in hislot with Hosokawa Harumoto, and, at the head of fifty thousandtroops, attacked and killed Miyoshi Motonaga. e former small but greatly increased estates situatedso as to command the main highways as well as the great cit

He had already at his command an army of some thirtythousand men, and with this he moved out, challenging Mitsuhide tofight on the plains of Yamazaki. This point isknown as Nanshan, and its commanding position is such that an armyholding it blocks all access to the Kwangtung peninsula. ' ***Charlevoix, referring to this incident, says, This unfortunatestatement inflicted a wound on religion which is bleeding still aftera century and a half. nwithin the limits of the Japanese islands, as well as an effectualveto on the growth of the mercantile marine.