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and the supreme command of the nation's armaments wereessential to the end they had in view, namely, strength derived fromunity. A commissionhaving been obtained from Kyoto, Motonari took the field in 1555, andwith only three thousand men succeeded, by a daring feat, inshattering Harukata with twenty thousand. BATTLE OF ICHI-NO-TANIThe victory of the armies led by Noriyori and Yoshitsune broughtKamakura and Fukuhara into Subsequently, however, the Bakufu invited him to Kamakura andassigned the temple Kencho-ji for his residence and place ofministrations.

Success crowned the early efforts of the Owari forces in thiswar, but the whole situation was changed by Asai Nagamasa, whosuddenly marched out of Omi and threatened to attack Nobunaga's rear. With the great mass of the feudal chiefs things faredsimilarly. But the supremacy of the South did not last long. In fact, at a councilheld to consider this matter, he proposed to cross the water at thehead of one hundred and fifty thousand men, handing over theadministration of affairs in Japan to Ieyasu.