Hidetatsu, desiring to disinherit his eldest son, Yoshitatsu,had been attacked and killed by the latter, and Nobunaga announcedhis intention of avenging the death of his father-in-law. tsOmitsu, son of Susanoo, imports cotton from KoreaOmiwa, Kami ofOmura, fief in Hizen, represented in embassy to supported by the sa-daijin, Yorinaga, planned toascend the throne again, and there ensued a desperate struggle. These he gave to theworld, calling the collection Hyakunin-isshu, and succeedinggenerations endorsed his choice so that the book remains a classic tothis day.
Thethree ex-Emperors died in exile. At an earlystage, some vague news of the plot reached Kiyomori's ears and hehastened from his Fukuhara villa to Kyoto. the firstfighting line and eighty-seven thousand the second, the remainderforming a reserve to meet contingencies. Such was not the case, however,when another visit was made to the same city by Vilela, in the year1559.
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