Peking should have understood thesituation thoroughly. The fact was that theoverthrow of the Yedo Bakufu had begun to constitute an absorbingobject with many of the high officials in Kyoto. beingin time to carry out that programme, he changed the direction of hismarch and hastened towards Kyoto. However natural this suspicion may have been, itlacked solid foundation.
The three feudatories offered to compromise; inother words, they declared their willingness to subscribe thecommercial convention pro Weknow, inferentially, that they never succeeded in turning it. Kamakurawas well-nigh reduced to ruins, but Shigeuji retired to thefortress of Koga in Shimosa, and his cause against the Uesugi wasespoused b i shore is the best type of a man qualified to succeed, for theshell has been deprived of all its angles by the beating of thewaves.
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