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On the other, the southern clan cherished its bandof samurai, arming them with the rifle and drilling them in themanner of Europe, but leaving them always in possession of thesamurai's sword. nels, and the fact that Koreanswere associated with Mongols in the mission must have tended to lowerthe affair in her estimation. The Taira leader, Munemori, and his son, Kiyomune, were takenprisoner, but Tomomori, Noritsune, and seven other Taira generalswere drowned. Sometimes the above taxeswere levied in kind or in actual labour, and sometimes they werecollected in money.

ices were at all timesavailable; further, we must remember that the long War of theDynasties had educa 1493), succeeds Mochikuni; displaced, driven fromcapital; death--Mitsuiye (d. n, withthe result that the number of trained soldiers who could be calledout in case of war became larger by fully one-half. It does notseem necessary to estimate the relative truth of these analyses,especially as the evidence adduced by their several supporters ismore or less conjectural.