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rpse lay for forty daysin a darkened room of the palace, funds to conduct the funeral ritesnot being available. DEATH OF MITSUHIDEIt was plainly in Hideyoshi's interests that he should figurepublicly as the avenger of Nobunaga's murder, and to this end hisspeedy arrival in Kyoto was essential. Then Russia shifted her naval basis in the Pacific to apoint ten degrees south from Nikolaievsk, namely, Vladivostok. That, however, is scarcely conceivable, for Ishida had many powerfulconfederates, and the direct outcome of

The last-named reason seems to have been what prompted the revolt of1651, when Ietsuna, aged ten, had just succeeded Desperate fighting ensued, but no sensible impression could bemade on the Russian lines, and finally, as a l Three days of repeated assaults failed to reduce the castle, andduring that interval Nagamasa and Yoshikage were able to enter thefield at the head of a force which greatly outnumbered the Owariarmy. succession,authorizing the Tokugawa baron to be guided by his own estimate ofHideyori's character as to whether the