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aira leaders were known to be just thenstraining every nerve to beat back the westward-rolling tide ofMinamoto conquest. setransports carrying troops to the mainland, or to meet effectuallyand crush any attempt of the Japanese squadrons to obtain command ofthe sea. That wasdone effectually by Yoshitane's generals, and Sasaki had to flee fromOmi. rinaga in possession of Yoshino Castle, and AkamatsuNorimura of Harima blocking the two highways called the Sanindo andthe Sanyodo.

Officials of this last classwere under the command of a functionary called o-rusui who hadgeneral charge of the business of the harem; di espatched to Echigo to collect troops, and a youngerbrother, Yoshisuke, to Soma-yama on a similar errand. Yasuhirapaid no attention, and Go-Shirakawa commissioned Yoritomo to punishthe northern chief's contumacy. Neverforgetting that Kajiwara had saved his life in the affair of thehollow tree, he appointed him to the post of mil