It Was Thought That This Would
Have Occasioned Great Troubles In Japan, For All The Subjects Of
Frushma-Tay Were Up In Arms, And Meant To Hold Out To The Utmost
Extremity, Having Fortified The City Of Frushma, And Laid In
Provisions For A Long Time.
But the tay and his son, being then at the
emperor's court, were commanded to write to their vassals, ordering them
to lay down their arms and submit to the emperor, or otherwise to cut
open their own bellies.
Life being sweet, they all submitted, and those
were pardoned who had taken up arms for their tay. The emperor has
given their dominions, which were two kingdoms, to two of his own
kinsmen; and this year the emperor has ordered the castle belonging to
Frushma to be pulled down, being a very beautiful and gallant fortress,
in which I saw him this year, and far larger than the city of Rochester.
All the stones are ordered to be conveyed to Osaka, where the ruined
castle, formerly built by Fico-Same, and pulled down by Ogosha-Same,
is ordered to be rebuilt three times larger than before; for which
purpose all the tonos or kings have each their several tasks appointed
them; to be executed at their several charges, not without much
grumbling: For they had got leave, after so many years attendance at
court, to return to their own residences, and were now sent for again
all of a sadden to court, which angreth them not a little:
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