
Episode 440 - Tipping the Balance
History of Japan
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Go Toba's First Battle
Tanioshi took an arrow from his quiver, drew the string back the full length of the shaft and let fly. The arrow pierced misasue's left sleeve and went more than half way through the frame of the double doors behind him. Kusada uma no jo, who was a warrior on go toba's side broke in. Tanoshi lected, it would greatly damage my reputation if at the very start of gotoba's campaign, his senior commander were to be killed by an enemy arrow. He therefore withdrew outside the gate to forestall any disparaging remarks. In the end, iga miisue and his men are overwhelmed by sheer numbers, but the battle
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