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Updated: May 6, 2025

This name grew to be a terror to the enemy, and it was mainly through his prowess that his father and their scanty remnant of troops escaped over roads where the snow lay several feet deep. On a subsequent occasion in the same campaign, Yoshiiye had Sadato at his mercy and, while fixing an arrow to shoot him, composed the first line of a couplet, "The surcoat's warp at last is torn."

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