hayama

Updated: May 9, 2025

Skill in archery or equestrianism was so much valued that it brought quick preferment and even secured pardon for a criminal. On the other hand, neglect of these arts, or conduct unbecoming a samurai, was mercilessly punished. When Hayama Muneyori retired to his province without accompanying the army sent to attack O-U, he was severely censured and deprived of his estates.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era