It is also true that the Oba brothershad fought staunchly on the side of Yoritomo's father, Yoshitomo, inthe Heiji war. AFTER THE ASSASSINATIONNobunaga was assassinated on the second day of the sixth month,according to Japanese reckoning. Nobunaga's attemptto quell this insurrection was unsuccessful, and immediately Nagamasaand Yoshikage seized the occasion to march upon Kyoto. surpations, which deprived theImperial Court of the place properly belonging to it in the Statepolity.
A less vertebrate policy could scarcely have been formulated, but theconduct of the Bakufu statesmen was more stalwart than theirlanguage. The situationwas complicated by an unpleasant incident. Thenceforth, the custom came to be this: Where comparatively minorinterests were involved and where the matter la he Chinesepositions, the attacking armies having only seven hundred casualtiesand the defenders, six thousand.
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