Their names are more or less familiar to the British public by reason of the many punitory expeditions we have been compelled to undertake into their hills.
It may here be noted that, although several of the Taira leaders who took the field against the Minamoto were killed in the campaign or executed or exiled after it, the punitorymeasures adopted by Yoritomo were not by any means wholesale.
Hoary, gigantic shapes of eld do wrong to the Gods, and are put into the punitory Hades.
In April, 1874, Lieutenant General Saigo Tsugumichi was appointed to the command of a punitory expedition to Formosa.
But in the engagements that ensued at Fushimi and Toba the shogun's army was completely defeated, and Prince Yoshiaki was formally ordered by the imperial court to lead a punitory expedition against Tokugawa, now an open rebel.
