Some erected simpleedifices under the pine trees; some set up a monster umbrella for aroof, and some brought portable pavilions. His motive, however, has beenvariously interpreted. It is true that, on March 28th, a squadron of Cossacksattempted to surprise the Japanese cavalry at Chong-ju, but the CHAPTER IV.
These two men becamethenceforth the central figures in an era of maladministration andcorruption. i chief, and it was not until 1588--six years after Nobunaga'sdeath--that, through the intervention of the Emperor, peace wasfinally restored. He gave a lock of his hair to one of his squires andcomposed a couplet: Though I am forth and gone, And tenantless my home; Forget not thou the Spring, Oh! plum tree by the eaves. Besides the six-stringed harp orwagon, much more complex harps or lutes of thirteen or twenty-fivestrings were used, and in general there was a great increase in thenumber and variety of instruments.
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