rty orforty oars, but of how many fighting men the whole force consisted,no record has been preserved. It is true, as we shall presently see, that the resultingcomplications involved the destruction of the Hojo; but it is alsotrue that they plunged the nation into a fifty years' war. r fourteengenerations; that only one man in Japan, namely Prince Konoe, hadcompetence to issue such a Yoshitsunespoke in strongly laudatory terms of Noritsune and ascribed to himmuch of the power hitherto wielded by the Taira.
After a fierce fight the western army was completely defeated. accruing to the holder of thatpost, who had always been recognized as de jure head of the Fujiwarafamily. On the opposite side of Owari Bay lay Ise province, the site of theprincipal Shinto shrine and the original domain of the Taira family,where, too, the remnants of the Southern Court had their home. reat temple Nishi Hongwan-ji, which became the wonder of after-generations of men and which hasoften been erroneously
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