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Kiyomori had despatched abody of fifty thousand men under Koremori, and Yoritomo had decidedto meet this army on the banks of the Fuji river. ey? ****The Hikitsuke-shii, a body of men who kept the archives of theMan-dokoro and conducted preliminary judicial investigations. The term was notreally applicable in the case of Ieyasu. This provision was, in fact, a codification of the veto pronounced byHideyoshi on his death-bed against marriages between the families ofdifferent daimyo.

The ancestor of the Shimazu family was Tadahisa, an illegitimate sonof Minamoto Yoritomo. In fact, history has preserved only one unequivocal expression ofconsent. WhenIenari was nominated shogun, his father, Hitotsubashi Harunari, fullyexpected to be appointed guardian of t Looking through a window, one saw deadbodies lying without anyone to bury them, and sometimes skeletonscovered with quilts reposed on the mats, while among the weedscountless corpses were scattered.