ABSTRACT
On the Heike side, they had prepared to make a night attack with about five hundred mounted men under the command of Noto no Kami, but while Etchu Jiro Moritsugu and Emi no Jiro Morikata were disputing who should be in the lead, the night broke with nothing done. Had they made the night attack, how could the
These were ships of descendants of the captains of the twelve ships of Kushigasaki of that province (Nagato) in which Kuro Taiyu Hogan Yoshitsune rode at the battle of Dannoura in the old time of Genryaku. After Yoshitsune ran down and destroyed the Heike, he wrote with his own hand orders that government service could not be imposed on these ships in any port in Japan, and even now they carried these in the ships.
