This was calledthe great revolt (dai-ikki), and the movement of oppositionprovoked by it was termed the small revolt (sho-ikki). With these co-operated the Yamana, the Isshiki,and other septs, so that Yoshitane found himself between two powerfularmies, one in Kyoto, the other in Kii. d the name of the EasternArmy; the Yamana forces, which were massed on the west and south,being distinguished as the Western Army. r forcarrying a fan decorated with a painting of a cuckoo and forimitating the cuckoo's cry whenever he opened the fan.
On October 21, 1600, the great battle of Sekigahara was fought. Go-Kashiwabara 1500-1526105th Go-Nara 1526-1557106th of Japan's blue-blooded aristocrats, and to him theConstitutionists have yielded implicit obedience ever since. to the soldiers who had fought sogallantly and doggedly to beat off a foreign foe was comparativelypetty.
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