Asked for the reason of hisabstention, Mori replied that he happened to know the exact number ofthreads, having counted them on a previous occasion when admiring thesword. The Chinese, notpossessing the traditions of the Divine Age, were ignorant of thistruth, and were driven to invent the theory of heaven's decrees. The question of returning toKyoto had now to be considered. Konishi and Kato continuedthe combination of their forces as they approached this position,but, contrary to expectation, the Koreans fought in the open and thecastle fell without difficulty.
natural vantage, while Takauji himself occupiedthe routes on the north, his van being at Takenoshita. and economical toprevent acts of insurrection than to deal with them after their fulldevelopment, and that, to the form u Sadayori and the Nichiren priests, with the result that thesplendid fane of Hongwan-ji is reduced to ashes. The scripture of Hayashi's school of ethics was Chu Hi'scommentary on the Great Learning of Confucius.
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