okugawa of Kii province in the person of Yoshimune,grandson of Yorinobu and great-grandson of Ieyasu. eleventh century extended hisrule over six districts and defied the authority of the provincialgovernors. The Emperor, who inclined to literature andreligion, conceived a profound reverence for two Buddhist prelates ofgreat learning and conspicuously holy lives. thither throughthe country to encourage the domestic production of these staples aswell as of vegetable wax.
Jocho, possiblythe greatest of the workers in this medium, followed Chinese models,and carved a famous Buddha for Michinaga's temple of Hosho-ji (1022). In the year 1180, the mandate of PrinceMochihito reached him, and learning that Yoritomo had taken thefield, he gathered a force in Shinano. sevenprovinces to provide commissariat for three hundred thousand men andtwenty thousand horses for a period of one year. Thesalient facts are that Hideyoshi left Osaka with the main army of onehundred and thirty thousand men on the 22d of J
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