The Yedo financiers now concluded that the quantityof currency in circulation was insufficient and its quality too good. ortunity for revolt had now arrived, and the Taira chief, deprivedof his son's restraining influence, b t of winter, and they therefore judged it advisable toretire to their seaboard chain of entrenched camps. Thegates were proportionately as huge as those at Osaka, well-nigh themost stupendous works ever undertaken, not excepting even thePyramids of Egypt.
ad decided to turn his back on Kyoto andproceed westward; he himself to Kyushu, and Yukiiye to Shikoku. in themurder, and having been refused, sent a naval squadron to bombardKagoshima, the capital of the Satsuma baron. Ieyasu treated the whole matter lightly. The fruits ofhis victory had hardly been gathered when death overtook him, in1543.
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