In short,eight provinces of the Kwanto responded like an echo to Yoritomo'scall, and, by the time he had made his circuit of Yedo Bay, sometwenty-five thousand men were marshalled under his standard. History says thatalthough his regular salary was only 3000 koku annually, he embezzled260,000 ryo of gold *One kin equals 1. Careless of death in the face of the foe, I braved thedangers of wind and wave, not recking that my body might sink to thebottom of the sea, and be devoured by monsters of the deep.
The poorer classes of samurai being increasingly distressed, they,too, borrowed money at high rates of interest from merchants andwealthy farmers, which loans they were generally unable to repay. He writes as follows: Thegeneralship of Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin was something quitenew in the country at their time. It is most regrettablethat the nation's treasure should thus be squandered upon foreignluxuries. They are saidto have totalled 190,000.
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