TheAbe magnate was killed by a stray arrow at an early stage of thecampaign, but his son, Sadato, made a splendid resistance. For this distress neither the Tendai doctrines nor the Shingonconceptions were sufficiently simple to supply a remedy. pedition, which orders he applied himself to carry out at Watanabe,in Settsu, near the eastern entrance to the Inland Sea. ectenlightenment are attained, all the elements of phenomenal existenceare seen to be empty, vain, and unreal.
ent; and Yoshimitsu, the third ofthe Ashikaga shoguns, showed equal respect towards Gido, Zekkai andJorin, whose advice he constantly sought. ass cruisers, which, according to modern ideas, would not beworthy of a place in the fighting line. By the priests andthe political enemies of the Taira these cruel calamities wereattributed to the evil deeds of Ki Previously the only sources of information about foreign affairs hadbeen the masters of the Dutch ships, the Dutch merchants, and theJapanese interpreters at Nagasaki.
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