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He chose Hyogo forbattle-field, and, after a stout fight, was discomfited and fled toOmi, the position of kwanryo being bestowed on his rival, Sumimoto,by the shogun. It thus fell out that he did not reach the province ofOwari until the 27th of March. There for twenty days he held outagainst the attacks of the greatly superior Hojo forces, untilfinally, no help arriving and h o theassault of the Taira, who were taken wholly by surprise, neverimagining that any forces could have essayed such an enterprise insuch a tempest.

s and stationed permanently in the northern islands, Amore practical programme was the formation of a local militia. Go-Toba asked that theestate should be restored, but Yoshitoki flatly refused. Shirakawa modelled himself on his father. His requests are saidto have assumed the guise of appeals in behalf of famine-strickenpeople, but there is no evidence that any of the presents weredevoted to that purpose.