. The mikado's empire. Ainos, apprised of his com-ing, collected a great army to overwhelm the invader. Seeing hisfleet approaching, and awed at the sight, they were struck with con-sternation, and said, These ships must be from the gods. If so, andwe draw bow ao-ainst them, we shall be destroyed. No sooner had YAMATO-DAEI], THE CONQUEEOR OF THE KUAN TO. 71 Yamato-Dake landed than they came to the strand and hero kept the leaders as hostages, and having tranquilized thetribes, exacting promise of tribute, he set out on the homeward jour-ney. His long absence from the capital in
. The mikado's empire. Ainos, apprised of his com-ing, collected a great army to overwhelm the invader. Seeing hisfleet approaching, and awed at the sight, they were struck with con-sternation, and said, These ships must be from the gods. If so, andwe draw bow ao-ainst them, we shall be destroyed. No sooner had YAMATO-DAEI], THE CONQUEEOR OF THE KUAN TO. 71 Yamato-Dake landed than they came to the strand and hero kept the leaders as hostages, and having tranquilized thetribes, exacting promise of tribute, he set out on the homeward jour-ney. His long absence from the capital in the wilds of the Eastdoubtless disposed him to return gladly. He passed through Hitachiand Shimosa, resting temporarily at Sakura, then through Musashiand Kai. Here he is said to have invented the distich, or thirty-one-syllable poem, so much used at the present day. After his army hadbeen refreshed by their halt, he sent one of his generals into Echizenand Echigo to tranquilize the North-west and meet him in Junk ill the Bay of Yedo, uear the Shriue of Tachibaua hirne. He himself marched into Shinano. Hitherto, since crossing theHakone range, he had carried on his operations on the plains. Shi-nano is a great table-land averaging twenty-five hundred, and risingin many places over five thousand, feet above the sea-level, surroundedand intersected by the loftiest peaks and mountain ranges in miles north-west of Tokio is the famous mountain pass ofUsui Toge, the ascent of which from Sakamoto, on the high plain be-low, is a toilsome task. At this point, twenty-six hundred feet aboveSakamoto, unrolls before the spectator a magnificent view of the Bayof Yedo and the plain below, one of the most beautiful and impress-ive in Japan. Here Yamato stood and gazed at the land and water. 72 THE JIIKADOS E2IFIRE. draperied in the azure of distance, and, recalling the memory of hisbeloved wife, who had sacrificed her life for him, he murmured, sadly,Adzmna, adzuma
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