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Regardless of its strategical disadvantages, theydeemed its possession cardinal. At last the situation became sostrained that Tadayoshi withdrew to Echizen and from thence made hisway to Kamakura. The Chinese squadron was not seeking an encounter. Dutch headquarters, andEnglish; English factory closed (1623)Hirafu, warden of Koshi, campaigns against Sushen (658-

Reference has already been made tothis eminent official's policy, and it will suffice here to add thathis aim was to restore the austere fashions of former times. Fierce fighting nowtook place on the south and east of the capital. n, withthe result that the number of trained soldiers who could be calledout in case of war became larger by fully one-half. They aredivided in their estimate of his literary capacity.