He changed his name toYoshinori, and assuming the office in 1428, showed high talents andgreat intrepidity. Ienari had more than fifty daughters, all born of differentmothers, from which fact the dimensions of his harem may be inferred. In 1570, he removed to Hamamatsu, having subjugated theprovinces of Mikawa and Totomi. In the year 1028, he seized the chieftown of the latter province, and pushing on into Awa, killed thegovernor and obtained complete control of the province.
not until the battleof Sekigahara placed him in command of immense resources, did Ieyasudecide to make Yedo his capital. He discharged all thesefair-faced ladies and kept only the ill-favoured ones, his assignedreason being that Tadatsune had another son, Tsunemasa,who was appointed vice-governor of Shimosa and who is generallyspoken of as Chiba-no-suke. It was on suchan errand of mercy that the sailing ship Morrison entered Yedo Bay,in 1837, and being required to repair to Kagoshima, was driven fromthe latter place by cannon shot.
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