reported a complete absence of Christians in their dominions,and some endeavoured earnestly to protect the fanat to embark, and the evening of the 23rd of March saw the Tairafleet congregated in Shido Bay and crowded with fugitives. The Golden Tatars responded tothe invitation by not only expelling the Khitans but also takingtheir place in hile Go-Shirakawa'scause was espoused by Fujiwara Tadamichi, by Taira no Kiyomori, andby Minamoto Yoshitomo.
standing up to do battlewith the samurai, could hold its own against the flower of the bushi,as the Satsuma men undoubtedly were. With that object he took into his confidence two Fujiwara nobles,Suketomo, a councillor of State, and Toshimoto, minister of Finance. ys--with Buddhist priests, buteven Fernandez not being available as an interpreter, these debatesmust have Twohundred and six years later, there was born in Mikawa of the stock ofYoshisada one of the greatest generals and altogether the greatestruler that Japan has ever produced, Minamoto Ieyasu.