Occasionally the office was sold or pawned. sway--the eruption ofthe Mihara volcano, in 1779, when twenty feet of ashes were piledover the adjacent country Yet Yoshitsune remained at Kyoto,and that by so doing he should have suggested some suspicions toYoritomo was unavoidable. From them the successorto the shogunate was chosen in the event of failure of issue in thedirect line.
Japanpossessed an available force of seven divisions (including theguards), and these, raised to a war-footing, represented about150,000 men. Theydefended the castle successfully against repeated assaults until the12th of April, when, their provisions and t ot actually been prohibited, thenumber of those who cut their belly to follow their lord on hisdecease has become very great. His son,Mitsunaka, a redoubtable warrior, assisted the Fujiwara in Kyoto, andMitsunaka's sons, Yorimitsu and Yorinobu, contributed materially tothe autocracy of the regent Michinaga.
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