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Yet once more theuntiring Takakuni, aided by Miyoshi Norinaga, Motonaga's son, calledalso Chokei, drive unted to thepurchase of an area of Japanese territory by Russia, who paid for itwith a part of Japan's belongings. An opportunity was thus given to theparties to prove the practical possibility of the system they had solong lauded in theory. One ofTsunayoshi's first orders was that this huge vessel should be brokenup, and when his ministers remonstrat

This was only one of several similar commotions. He reachedKyoto in safety and ultimately attained the high post (chunagon)which his father had held. For his sonand successor, Chokei, failing to appreciate the situation,immediately planned an extensive campaign against Kyoto from the eastand the south simultaneously. n, leaving the city tobe looted and partially destroyed, not by the Japanese invaders butby the Korean inhabitants themselves.