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THE BATTLES OF KOKUSENYA
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and easily captured it. The Tartar King was punished by being beaten with five hundred blows of a bamboo, and was afterwards sent back as a prisoner to Tartary. The traitor Ri Tōten was put to death, and Kokusenya made the young Prince ascend the throne, naming him Emperor Eiryaku, to the extreme joy of all the nation.
