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in Izu, Yoshitsune had earned the reputation of being thebest swordsman in the whole of northern Japan. ducation, fittingthe disciplinary and meditative methods of the Chinese propagandiston the pre-existing foundations of earlier sects. Someparleying took place, and the issue of the situation seemed verydoubtful when the Koreans lost patience and crossed the river, hopingto destroy the Japanese by a night attack. Just at that time the septs of Hosokawa and Miyoshiwere engaged in a fierce struggle for supremacy.

THE 113TH SOVEREIGN, THE EMPEROR HIGASHIYAMA(A. Feudalism could not be said tohave been abolished so long as the samurai continued to be a classapart. RELIGIONThe earliest Buddhist sect established in Japan was the Hosso. His armies had shown that, for thepurpose of a campaign, the distance would be traversed in little morethan half of that time.