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Nobunaga's men tookshelter themselves behind palisades and fusilladed the enemy so hotlythat the old-fashioned hand-to-hand fighting became almostimpossible. Just about the time when the van of the Japanese army was enteringSeoul, the Korean admiral, Yi Sun-sin, at the head of a fleet ofeighty vessels, those high officials, the shoguncould interfere effectually by reference to the letter of the law. Rai Sanyo (1780-1832), the great Japanese historian, says: Isaw a letter written by Yoshisada with his own hand for the purposeof admonishing the members of his family.

In 1570, he removed to Hamamatsu, having subjugated theprovinces of Mikawa and Totomi. Mats (tatami), fitted together so as tocover the floor evenly, were not used until the very close of theperiod; and then, too, sliding doors began to be used as partitions. of Sadatoki and the accession of his son Takatoki (1316), no lessthan four members of the Hojo family held the regency in succession. agirlAntung, on Yalu, Russians defeatedAoki Kaneiye, metal-worker of Muromachi periodKonyo, scholar, studies D