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Updated: May 20, 2025

In this matter, Katsumoto's volte-face had been nearly as signal as Sozen's, for the former was Yoshimi's champion at the beginning. Henceforth the war assumed the character of a struggle for the succession to the shogunate.

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

But it is surprising to see him openly espouse this same Yoshimi's cause two months later. The fact was that Sozen might not choose.

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