Saito Musashi-bo Benkei : tales of the wars of the Gempei, being the story of the lives and adventures of Iyo-no-Kami Minamoto Kuro Yoshitsune and Saito Musashi-bo Benkei the warrior monk . rincestanding over him the bravo sought the name of his con-queror, and learning it dubbed him Yamato-take, bravestin Yamato. This had no emollient effect on the roughtemper of the prince. Since tripes there should be, tripesthere would be, and he forewith ripped him up like a ripemelon and slew him. Now all this is very reminiscent ofthe campaigns that Keiko himself conducted in the southisland (Kyushu) ,f
Saito Musashi-bo Benkei : tales of the wars of the Gempei, being the story of the lives and adventures of Iyo-no-Kami Minamoto Kuro Yoshitsune and Saito Musashi-bo Benkei the warrior monk . rincestanding over him the bravo sought the name of his con-queror, and learning it dubbed him Yamato-take, bravestin Yamato. This had no emollient effect on the roughtemper of the prince. Since tripes there should be, tripesthere would be, and he forewith ripped him up like a ripemelon and slew him. Now all this is very reminiscent ofthe campaigns that Keiko himself conducted in the southisland (Kyushu) ,f and perhaps all that can be drawn from it * The Nihongi dishes the story up with the usual Four EternalKings (attendant knights) known to a well-developed feudalism. Itis interesting to find the practice (?) so early as 720 It is copiedfrom China. Brigand etc. simply means one refusing to recognizethe Tenno as chief. t A curious feature in the Nihongi is that the bravo killed is calledthe Bravo of Kahakami. Keikos troubles also were with the Bravoesof Kahakami, this place name bsing multipled into three places all indifferent districts, a very disorderly corner of his YAMATO-TAKE SLAYS THE BKAVO OF K AW A KAMI. INTRODUCTION. 47 is the necessity of such a campaign to reduce to submissionor reconquer the old home of the chief clan of the northern district beyond Fujiyama, was plainly stillin the hands of the Yemishi or Ainu, and Keiko had anopportunity to give us an excellent description of thesesavages and their manners, if the chroniclers had not pre-ferred instead to draw on Chinese literature.* However, asfar as the Yamato-damashii had affected these aborigineswe can find it better at firsthand. They afforded Keikothe excuse to keep Yamato-take busy and away from hisown neighbourhood. The job is offered to Oho-usu, butit was plain enough that he would have no stomachfor it. This youth had in his earlier days beeu sent up tosecure two brides for his
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