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Go-Murakamiescaped to Kanao, and presently the Nitta family in the east and theKitabatake in the west showed such activity that the Southern causere The Emperor declares war, makes peace, and concludestreaties. These works were the Osaka Castle, in 1583;a palace for the retiring Emperor Okimachi, in 1586; the palace ofJuraku, in 1587; the Kyoto Daibutsu, in 1586, and the Momo-yamaPalace, in 1594. Their boats were much smaller than thoseof the invaders, but the advantage in dash and daring was all on theside of the Japanese.

The dynasty by which thepeninsula was then ruled owed its very existence to China's aid, andduring two centuries the peninsula had enjoyed peace and a certainmeasure of prosperity under that dynasty. It was betrayed by Minamoto Yukitsuna. Nevertheless, he did not lack the faculty of pity. Thus, in 1882, Japan obtained recognition of her rightto protect her legation with troops; and, in 1885, a convention,sig