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Such recluses as Kamo Chomei,Saigyo Hoshi and Yoshida Kenko were an outcome of these conditions. and Hotta, butnone of them had shown any marked ability; they had allowed theirfunctions to be usurped by the personal attendants of the shogun. o prove that Hideyoshi assumed theattitude of a suppliant, while others have attributed that demeanourto the Tokugawa chieftain. , The feudatory of Satsuma is creditedwith having justly remarked that the victims of this cruel fatesuffered for their social status rather than

General Nogi's force had marched up from Port Arthur, butGeneral Kawamura's was a new army formed of special reservists andnow put in the field for the first time. His son, Katsuyori, inherited none ofhis father's great qualities except his bravery. Such a work,so widely admired, reveals an author and an audience instinct withgraceful thoughts. Save for its sequel, this incident would merelyhave to be catalogued with many cognate injustices which disfiguredthe epoch.