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It is onrecord that he himself actually joined in the manual labour ofdragging stones and timbers into position, and that, clad in hempengarments, he led the labourers' chorus of Kiyari. The Japanese programme was to holdthe Russian centre; to attack their left flank with Kawamura's army,and to sweep round their right flank with Nogi's forces. He is often spoken of as Soun, thename he adopted in taking the tonsure, which step did not in anydegree interfere with his secular activities. That is to me, heis reported to have said, a source of perpetual sorrow, and careshould be taken that Tsunayoshi, who seems to be a clever lad, shouldreceive full instruction in literature.

NOBUNAGA PROCEEDS TO KYOTOIn October, 1568, Nobunaga set out for Kyoto at the head of an armysaid to have numbered thirty thousand. Townsend Harris,American consul-general in Japan, to open the country to trade. When these distinguished animals were borne alongthe public thoroughfares, people hastening hither and thither onbusiness had to It seems, also, that Xavier's zeal hadoutrun his discretion.