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The Tokugawa battalions, following two routes--the Tokaido and theNakasendo--made rapid progress westward, and on September 21st, thevan of the division under Fukushima and Ikeda reached Kiyosu. ompetence, andfalling into an ambuscade in the course of the counter-flankingoperation, suffered defeat with heavy losses. The Emperor, who inclined to literature andreligion, conceived a profound reverence for two Buddhist prelates ofgreat learning and conspicuously holy lives. Thus,having obtained a promise of a parliament, they applied themselves toexciting anti-official sentiments in the

Yet things should havebeen otherwise, for in Takauji's time there was enacted andpromulgated the code of regulations already referred to as the Kemmu Go-Daigo then sent to Kusunoki Masashige a mandate to raisetroops and move against the rebels, for to that category the Hojonow belonged in the absence of an Imperial commission. to bringing about the terriblecalamities of the Battle era (Sengoku Jidai), as the period of elevendecades ending in 1600 is called. It has now to be notedthat this movement was rapidly developed under the Taiko.