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It has therefore been my boastto lose no favourable opportunity, and taking wings like a dragon, Ihave subdued the east, chastised the west, punished the south, andsmitten the north. tegical direction of the war devolvedmainly upon Kitabatake Chikafusa, so far as the Southern Court wasconcerned. Thus, the loss of what they had never fully enjoyed didnot greatly distress them. Inimitation of them, the Chinese nation has since given itself up tophilosophizing, to which are to be attributed its constant internaldissensions.

It was, in truth, the final success. antly prevailed, and the Government's aims in thisrespect were not realized except for brief periods. Butwhen fire-arms were introduced in 1542, massively constructed castlesbegan to be built. Uraga Bay, two centuries afterwards, theJapanese were suddenly and vividly instructed in the enormous powerof a nation wielding such weapons of war.