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Book 29. (48 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	168	A figure, in white, below, on the platform, was being supported by two of the infantrymen, or Ashigaru, as the Pani spoke of them.	10
16	198	The figure who had been in white, a white of dignity, and a color that stood out amongst the others on the platform, was lying on the platform, his head in the arms of one of the Ashigaru.	10
17	45	On the ground, of course, the tarnsman was a common infantryman, and I had no doubt their incursion, despite their superiority in numbers, would be fiercely met by the Ashigaru of the Pani and several of our mercenaries.	10
18	82	We had not been on the track for more than a handful of Ihn, however, moving rapidly but circumspectly, lest crossbowmen be about, when we heard shouts before us, and we saw some dozen or so of the Pani Ashigaru, with their glaives, approaching.	10
18	229	To one side I saw two women in their kimonos, with their small steps, being ushered forward by one of the Ashigaru.	10
18	335	The figure in the hideous mask-helmet, with the bloodied sword, gave a sign and several Ashigaru fetched brands from the fallen, now-smoking pavilion, and hurled them to the dried branches with which the hut was roofed.	10
18	538	We saw Ashigaru in the vicinity with glaives.	10
18	545	We were followed by some mercenaries, and glaive-bearing Ashigaru.	10
19	13	Ashigaru accompanied them, lest fugitives be encountered.	10
19	15	To be sure, I was confident the last thing such fugitives would desire would be to encounter Lord Nishida's Ashigaru.	10
19	90	"It is he," said one of the Ashigaru.	10
19	97	"It will be dark soon," said one of the Ashigaru.	10
19	123	"He is more than a man," said one of the Ashigaru.	10
19	154	"Why did he come here?" asked one of the Ashigaru, uncertainly.	10
19	167	"It is growing dark," said one of the Ashigaru.	10
19	187	I set archers in place, particularly in the vicinity of the entrance, and, in support, Ashigaru.	10
19	231	In a moment the Ashigaru were upon them.	10
22	162	"I have sent for Ashigaru," said Tajima.	10
22	209	"Ashigaru will soon be here," said Tajima.	10
22	211	Ashigaru will call for her, see that she is cleaned up, and conduct her to Lord Nishida".	10
22	296	"Wait for the Ashigaru," said Tajima.	10
22	344	"I will send Ashigaru to recover the body," he said.	10
22	421	"Ashigaru," said Tajima.	10
22	531	The Ashigaru approaching from the central camp were now closer.	10
22	610	"The Ashigaru are here," said Tajima.	10
22	642	I gestured to the officer of the Ashigaru.	10
22	693	"What kept you? I spent Ahn in the rope circle! My hands were raw from standing and clutching the rope, under the eyes of the Ashigaru.	10
22	694	Too, they dared to look at my legs and ankles! How could they help themselves? You have them bared, you brute! Then we were knelt and we must still cling to the rope! Ahn later our waists were encircled, and we were permitted to recline! Only then we were given gruel and water! I was the last to be ...	10
23	86	His Ashigaru, of course, had failed to find the body in the forest.	10
24	1	In the Tent of Lord Nishida Two Ashigaru crossed their glaives, barring my passage.	10
24	4	Four more Ashigaru appeared, as though from nowhere.	10
24	13	"Call him! Disturb him! Is he alive, even now?" The two Ashigaru who barred my way tightened their grip on the glaives.	10
24	31	Within, between the two walls, there were several more Ashigaru, far more than were outside.	10
24	93	The captain of the guard then entered, followed by two Ashigaru.	10
25	131	Few, I thought, would care to linger in our precincts, risking discovery by Ashigaru.	10
25	276	With him were some five Ashigaru, two of whom bore lanterns.	10
25	282	The Ashigaru with him exchanged glances.	10
27	49	Ashigaru prowled the edges of the road, lest any of Lord Nishida's minions, primarily mercenaries, be tempted to avail themselves of an unobstructed highway to another prince, one with perhaps a deeper purse.	10
27	72	Here and there, as another such wagon passed, it, too, with its coffle of beauties, I noted a switch-bearing Ashigaru in attendance, doubtless lest one of the slaves be tempted to look about, or be so foolish as to attempt to communicate, or even whisper, to another of the "beads on the slaver's nec...	10
27	88	He was with a guard of some twenty Ashigaru, with officers.	10
27	101	We fell in then with a company of Ashigaru, their glaives shouldered.	10
27	113	The switch of one of the attending Ashigaru, I gathered, had found its mark, administering a stinging rebuke for some slave's indiscretion.	10
27	114	Earlier this morning Ashigaru had gathered in the slaves.	10
27	122	We had then tied their hands behind their backs and prepared to turn them over to the nearby Ashigaru.	10
27	127	We then thrust them stumbling to the waiting Ashigaru who took the hair of each in a separate hand and, bending them over at the waist, conducted them both in a common leading position to some point of collection.	10
32	3	I was not bound, but was in theory in the keeping of two of Lord Okimoto's Ashigaru.	10
32	9	There were many Ashigaru and officers about, both of the commands of Lord Nishida, many of whom I recognized, and many others, I took it, of Lord Okimoto.	10
35	113	"He was recovered, by Ashigaru, in the forest," he said.	10

Book 30. (9 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	57	It was true that the soldiers, or ashigaru, as they were called, of Lord Okimoto were amongst us.	10
23	106	"I gather," said Cabot, "that the forces with whom Lords Okimoto and Nishida are aligned are relatively few, and that little remains to Lord Temmu other than the great holding and, doubtless, some adjacent lands within its purview, which might be defended from the holding, and perhaps, as well, some...	10
25	13	Comprehensible enough was the precaution of symmetrically placed, projecting guard stations built into the side of the plateau, each manned by two ashigaru.	10
26	32	I had no idea of how effective lower Pani, mostly peasants, impressed or enlisted as ashigaru, might be, as it was not their way of life, so to speak, as it seemed to be for higher Pani, such as the warriors of Lord Temmu, and Lords Nishida and Okimoto, but I was sure they could be trained, might be...	10
26	104	By the time one could reach the fields, it was likely the ashigaru of Lord Temmu would be in position.	10
27	99	"It is speculated," said Aeacus, "that it is between five and seven thousand ashigaru".	10
27	107	Peasants might be impressed as ashigaru, but, I suspected, from what I had seen earlier, many of the local peasants might have left their villages and fields, and withdrawn to the mountains.	10
35	44	"But one wonders why Lord Yamada, rich with resources, with many ashigaru, with many ships, with many villages and rice fields, with his war well in hand, on the brink of victory, would send a single ship to Brundisium, or even, say, to Kasra or Telnus".	10
36	418	And Lord Nishida is a daimyo, with villages, rice fields, peasants, and ashigaru.	10

Book 33. (290 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
30	704	Some may even be bandits, not Ashigaru, and one cannot always be sure of Ashigaru either, particularly out of the sight of officers.	10
42	48	Behind the tent, they encountered Haruki, seemingly bewildered, indicating the two mysteriously prone Ashigaru, whom our new arrivals, the other two Ashigaru, quickly joined.	10
49	209	An Ashigaru might well think him an Ashigaru, which would be unlikely with us.	10
60	430	"You are not Ashigaru," said Lord Yamada, "but the metal from which Ashigaru may be formed".	10
1	81	Tarns were unknown at the World's End and it had been anticipated that their appearance in war would, at least initially, provide the forces of Lord Temmu with a fearsome, unanticipated weapon, the very sight of which might dismay and terrify at least common soldiers, the Ashigaru contingents, commo...	10
1	156	Several times, at night, enemies from below, dark-clad, agile night fighters, had forced pitons into the cliff, but these had been broken free during the day, by Ashigaru, lowered from the walls above.	10
1	441	"Fields are few and distant, and many are held by archers and Ashigaru of Lord Yamada," said Lord Nishida.	10
2	102	Neither of us were here when the Ashigaru of Yamada, with glaives and torches, streamed forth from the mountains.	10
2	159	"Greet me!" Where, I asked myself, are they? Surely there would be several here, the Ashigaru and officers, warriors of the two swords, to guard the place, to watch for others, to dispatch the patrols and kill squads.	10
3	3	The small fire could have been lit by Yamada Ashigaru, to lure in rescuers.	10
6	6	With him, behind him, and about, not on the dais, were some officers and several Ashigaru of Lord Yamada.	10
6	53	Ashigaru guards were present.	10
6	83	Lower Pani, peasants, fishermen, Ashigaru, and such, seldom share such a reservation, unless speaking to those of a higher station.	10
6	166	With him had come certain officers of General Yamada, presumably to monitor the proceedings and, later, to report upon them to the shogun, and several Ashigaru.	10
6	167	These Ashigaru were unarmed, but each bore a large silk-covered hamper.	10
6	173	This was largely the result of two factors, the number of fields and farms now denied to us by the Ashigaru of Yamada, and the reduction of supplies, the thinning of flocks and the depletion of resources, at those villages still accessible to us.	10
6	262	Tyrtaios and his party, officers and Ashigaru of General Yamada, then turned about, to take their leave.	10
7	5	After Tyrtaios and the officers and Ashigaru of Yamada who had accompanied him had withdrawn from the holding, I had made my way to the indoor housing area for slaves, and, to my surprise, found it empty.	10
7	60	"Captain?" inquired an Ashigaru, hurrying to me.	10
7	108	"When was this done?" I inquired of the Ashigaru.	10
7	123	"He is a great lord," said the Ashigaru.	10
7	134	"I am lowly," said the Ashigaru.	10
7	225	In the midst of the Ashigaru of Lord Yamada we would have disappeared like water into sand".	10
9	11	Two or three Ashigaru, impressed from the fields, were sent to reconnoiter, and they climbed the long path to the gate, in trepidation, fearing much.	10
9	15	Men and officers were gathered about, and, in moments, surgent and uncontrolled, what had once been the scarcely audible stammerings of frightened Ashigaru were being proclaimed, shouted, broadcast throughout the entire camp of the shogun.	10
9	23	The siege was done; gold lay in the clouds; officers sought to muster and organize men, but already hundreds of Ashigaru, and men, even of two swords, were hurrying up the long trail.	10
10	54	"Where are the Ashigaru archers?" asked Torgus.	10
10	105	From other wagons arose Ashigaru, armed with glaives.	10
10	224	"Now," I said, "there were perhaps four or five archers, Ashigaru, warriors, or such in several of the wagons, let us say, in eighty of the wagons.	10
11	125	To the north of the holding, Yamada's Ashigaru leave the villages, and make their way south.	10
11	155	"Many Ashigaru of Lord Yamada, after the siege was lifted, were fallen upon by peasants".	10
11	177	Indeed, most Ashigaru were of peasant origin.	10
11	269	I did not think any Ashigaru would have paused in the tumult of the fighting to attend to the discomfiting of so dangerous a beast.	10
12	143	An attendant led the tarn to shelter and I had been approached by two Ashigaru, who had apparently been waiting.	10
12	176	The two Ashigaru whom I had followed into the castle now stood behind me, one on each side.	10
12	268	It seemed this was important, particularly with two large Ashigaru behind me.	10
12	303	Also, there were two large Ashigaru, armed, behind me.	10
12	336	I felt my arms drawn behind me by the two Ashigaru.	10
12	377	Several Ashigaru were about.	10
12	379	Two ropes were on my neck, of some five or six feet in length, each in the grasp of an Ashigaru, one on either side of me.	10
12	401	He must have signaled something to the Ashigaru about, for I was then struck and prodded several times by the butts of glaives.	10
12	408	"No," said an Ashigaru.	10
12	418	"From the straw, from the pens," said an Ashigaru.	10
12	428	"Shall we commence the tortures, Lord?" inquired an Ashigaru.	10
12	429	"What of the straw jacket?" asked an Ashigaru.	10
12	433	The Ashigaru were silent.	10
12	436	"Here?" said an Ashigaru, awed.	10
13	118	"Outside the tharlarion stable, in Tarncamp," she said, "before I was delivered by Ashigaru to the quarters of Lord Nishida, his weakness and pusillanimity, his reluctance to be true to, and satisfy, his masculinity, were sufficiently evident".	10
13	152	It was not surprising to me that victory was no stranger to his warriors and Ashigaru.	10
14	4	Ashigaru were about, several armed with bows.	10
15	83	"It is a peasant," he said, "one not even Ashigaru".	10
16	1	What Occurred on the Fifth Level of the Palace "This wing of the palace," said the Ashigaru, "is closed to all save Lord Yamada and selected servitors".	10
16	7	"I do not know," said the Ashigaru.	10
17	1	The Archery Court "Lord Yamada," I said, "cares to speak with me?" I had been conducted by an Ashigaru to the shogun's archery court.	10
17	106	As we spoke, an attending Ashigaru was withdrawing the arrows from the post behind the straw.	10
17	142	The Ashigaru who had withdrawn the arrows from the post to which the target was affixed had now brought them back to Lord Yamada, and placed them in the stand which reposed to the shogun's right.	10
17	176	"Ho!" cried the Ashigaru suddenly, pointing upward, to the north, he who had returned the six arrows to the shogun.	10
19	7	Sometimes, too, the tax is supplied in terms of men, serving as porters, workers, and Ashigaru.	10
19	19	The Ashigaru in attendance within will see to your selections.	10
19	61	"Those selected will be washed, and placed in clean tunics before being bound and led to the palace," said the Ashigaru keeper.	10
19	65	"You may choose three," said the Ashigaru, "one each, for your personal pleasure".	10
19	72	"No," said the Ashigaru.	10
19	85	"Yes," said the Ashigaru.	10
19	94	"There were more," said the Ashigaru, "many more, at first.	10
19	104	"Attend me," barked the Ashigaru to the occupants of that stout pen.	10
19	108	"Attend me, field girls, miserable urts, barbarian beasts," said the Ashigaru.	10
19	111	"Perhaps, who knows," said the Ashigaru, "if you serve well, and beautifully, you might be noticed, you might come to the attention of a free man, if not, perhaps you can steal a mouthful of food, other than the gruel in the troughs which you must feed on, head down, on all fours, as the beasts you ...	10
19	139	The Ashigaru at our side carried a switch, a common accouterment for one in charge of slaves.	10
19	143	"What of this one?" inquired the Ashigaru.	10
19	151	"This one," said the Ashigaru, "is as supple as a reed, as delicate as a talender".	10
19	153	"No," said the Ashigaru, and the tip of his switch moved slightly, dismissing the slave.	10
19	172	"She spoke," said the Ashigaru.	10
19	179	"Do not reach through the bars," said the Ashigaru, lifting his switch.	10
19	220	"What of this one?" inquired the Ashigaru.	10
19	232	The switch of the Ashigaru flicked once more.	10
19	235	"You know better," said the Ashigaru.	10
19	243	The Ashigaru pointed her out to one of his fellows.	10
19	262	The Ashigaru motioned her to the side, and she leapt up and hurried to wait, beside Cecily.	10
19	274	"I am sorry," said the Ashigaru.	10
19	284	"Do you not see what has been done to me? Take me out of this terrible place! Take me out of this pen! It is a pen! A pen! Take me out of this pen! It is a pen for slaves, for slaves! Do you not know what is done with us here, what is expected of us, what we must do! Do you not understand the dirt, ...	10
19	299	"Let us move on to the next girl," said the Ashigaru.	10
19	310	"Next girl," said the Ashigaru.	10
19	317	The Ashigaru motioned her to the side, where she joined Cecily and Jane.	10
19	319	"She spoke without permission," said the Ashigaru to Tajima.	10
19	321	"Five," said the Ashigaru.	10
19	325	"Good," said the Ashigaru, and turned to his fellow.	10
20	116	"When the Ashigaru went to fetch her," said Tajima, "she was no longer in the holding".	10
20	284	"Ashigaru are about," I said.	10
20	292	"At the first hint of unseemly conduct, great lady," said Lord Akio, "call out, and Ashigaru will be at your side".	10
20	331	"Shall I call Ashigaru?" inquired Lord Akio, anxiously, his right hand within his left sleeve.	10
20	379	"Light lanterns," said Lord Yamada, and attending Ashigaru lit a number of dangling lanterns.	10
20	458	There were several Ashigaru about, and the kitchen master.	10
20	524	"Ashigaru," said Tajima, watching Tatsu, whose body rocked slowly over the bones and shells.	10
20	557	In a moment Ashigaru had closed about the figure and borne it, face downward, to the floor.	10
20	585	"See, my lord, the sign of the lotus!" "It is the avenger, of whom Tatsu spoke!" said an Ashigaru, peering downward.	10
20	587	"Dye, or paint, pigment of some sort," said an Ashigaru.	10
20	590	"Examine every man in my domain, whatever his rank, exalted or lowly, warrior or peasant, merchant or Ashigaru, fisherman or porter, whatever he may be, and bring to me any who bear on his left shoulder the sign of the lotus".	10
20	597	"Command us further," said an Ashigaru.	10
21	71	Long ago, on a dark night on a remote beach, the remaining land forces of Lord Temmu, defeated and routed, confronted with superior force on one side, the victorious warriors and Ashigaru of Lord Yamada, and roiling Thassa on the other, awaited their last battle, in which they would be driven into t...	10
21	142	Ashigaru are about".	10
21	466	"Are Ashigaru about?" I asked.	10
21	478	I suspect Ashigaru are coming for you".	10
21	484	"Lady Sumomo," said the first Ashigaru, politely, "we have come for you".	10
21	487	"Forgive us, lady," said the first Ashigaru.	10
21	491	"Please place your wrists behind you, crossed, lady," said the Ashigaru.	10
21	493	Her wrists were pulled behind her by another Ashigaru, and, with a short length of binding fiber, fastened together.	10
21	495	"Do not interfere," said the first Ashigaru to me.	10
21	497	A leash then, by the third Ashigaru, was snapped about the neck of Sumomo.	10
21	503	The leather of the leash danced between its encircling collar and the closed fist of an Ashigaru.	10
21	504	"No, lady," said the first Ashigaru.	10
21	508	"He has other concerns," said the Ashigaru.	10
21	521	"Please, Lady," said the first Ashigaru.	10
21	525	"Its nature has not yet been decided," said the Ashigaru.	10
22	93	"It shall not be the long death," he said, "but something public, something which will make clear to many, daimyos, warriors, Ashigaru, retainers, many, to all, the justice of the House of Yamada.	10
23	76	"Will you now summon Ashigaru?" inquired Haruki.	10
23	102	"Ashigaru are about.	10
23	238	"Ashigaru will be everywhere.	10
24	2	"Your Ashigaru will see to that," I said.	10
24	78	Several hundred were in the stands, mostly men of rank, high followers of Lord Yamada's ten daimyos, who had been summoned to the gathering, several with their warriors, Ashigaru, porters, and servants.	10
24	88	There were also hundreds of Ashigaru about, though standing before the tiers of the stands.	10
24	110	Following these four men with the gongs were two lines of masked, glaive-bearing Ashigaru, each line consisting of five men.	10
24	111	"I cannot see the faces of the approaching Ashigaru," I said.	10
24	131	The two lines of masked Ashigaru walked behind them, one line behind the fellow on the left, the other line behind the fellow on the right.	10
24	132	Three other individuals were parties to this small procession, two more masked Ashigaru, each of which was behind one of the two center individuals, some steps back, of the four who sounded the small gongs, and a smaller figure, barefoot, and clad in simple white, who preceded them.	10
24	135	On her neck were two leashes, each in the keeping of one of the two Ashigaru who followed her.	10
24	143	"The roads will be filled with Ashigaru," said a man.	10
25	18	Sumomo, bound, an Ashigaru holding to each arm, ascended the three wide steps encircling the pool.	10
25	20	She stood still for a moment, as though not comprehending, and then, suddenly, she uttered a long, weird, terrified scream, and began to struggle in the grip of the two Ashigaru.	10
25	54	Sumomo's bound, unconscious body was held between the two Ashigaru, these abreast, ascending the steps, each with a bound arm in his keeping.	10
25	69	The two Ashigaru, bearing the bound, unconscious Sumomo between them, were nearly to the summit of the platform.	10
25	81	The Ashigaru had now reached the summit of the platform, and had placed the inert body of Sumomo on its surface.	10
25	92	I could see that Sumomo, supported by the two Ashigaru, had been brought to the forward edge of the platform, where she might look down to the pool below.	10
25	95	Ashigaru near the low, circular retaining wall of the pool drew back, to escape sheets of water, smote about by the violent thrashing of long serpentine bodies.	10
25	121	There were two of the masked Ashigaru on the platform with Sumomo.	10
25	129	The two Ashigaru on the platform began to move a long board out, away from the platform, extending it over the pool.	10
25	146	The two Ashigaru spoke to her, abruptly, derisively.	10
25	159	"Strike her from the board!" cried a fellow up to the Ashigaru on the platform.	10
25	161	"She must walk! She must walk!" "Instruct her!" cried a fellow to the Ashigaru on the platform.	10
25	165	She was not a slave! Let her be accorded the dignity due to a free woman! Might a fellow not be slain for such an impertinence on the continent? "Proceed," ordered one of the Ashigaru on the platform.	10
25	197	"Proceed," said one of the two Ashigaru on the platform to the distraught criminal on the narrow wooden path, "lest the shogun become impatient".	10
25	199	"Will you live one Ihn or several?" inquired one of the Ashigaru on the platform.	10
25	203	The other Ashigaru was looking down, toward us, presumably waiting to see if a small movement by the shogun, a nod, a lifted hand, a dismissive gesture, would signal that the criminal would be dislodged, to plunge to the pool below.	10
25	206	The second Ashigaru then, glaive in hand, returned his attention to the plight of the criminal.	10
25	226	Similarly, she might be reasonably assured that the Ashigaru on the platform would have made certain that her precarious journey would be well begun.	10
25	228	"Move!" ordered the first Ashigaru on the platform.	10
25	231	"Move," said the second Ashigaru.	10
25	242	"Move!" said the first Ashigaru.	10
25	258	"Do not move!" "Move!" cried one of the Ashigaru on the platform to Sumomo.	10
25	339	The masked Ashigaru, Lord Yamada's secret death squad, the ten who had been waiting at the foot of the platform, and the two who had taken Sumomo to its perilous height, had now departed the stadium.	10
26	53	The Ashigaru from whom I had borrowed the robes and mask was in a nearby shed, bound and gagged.	10
29	187	I gathered she had worn it since it had been affixed by an Ashigaru, high on the platform by the eel pool.	10
30	1	We Have Paused at an Inn to Gather Intelligence "Sake, more sake!" said the Ashigaru, striking the low table with the metal cup.	10
30	4	"That is a sorry slave," said the Ashigaru.	10
30	7	"The hair," said one of the Ashigaru.	10
30	15	"How fares the march north?" "The pace is leisurely," said the Ashigaru.	10
30	17	"It spares the men," said one of the Ashigaru.	10
30	22	The Ashigaru, like most, were of the peasants, and took no umbrage at the annoyance of the innkeeper.	10
30	33	"Of course," said one of the Ashigaru.	10
30	35	"A lame man may move more rapidly than an army," said another of the Ashigaru.	10
30	41	"I have seen them in the sky," said one of the Ashigaru.	10
30	55	From whom more informed might we garner the intelligence we sought than from Ashigaru of the shogun himself? When three of them had spilled into the inn, Tajima had hailed them, greeted them like long lost brothers, and, to their pleasure, stood for several rounds of sake.	10
30	665	* * * "More sake," said the leader of the three Ashigaru, foragers for Lord Yamada's march.	10
30	668	"Perhaps we should think of reporting," said one of the Ashigaru to his leader.	10
30	677	There would be less to sell, particularly items of value, in the fortresses, villages, and towns of local daimyos if the daimyos, and most of their officers and Ashigaru, might be absent, not to mention that the approaches to such places would become more hazardous.	10
30	679	"So then, perhaps another round," said the leader of the Ashigaru, with affable incoherence.	10
30	683	"Must we not load the rice and report to the storage master?" said the third Ashigaru to the leader, stumbling somewhat in his diction.	10
30	713	The innkeeper, of course, was well aware that Haruki and I were about, but, as we were behind the screen, I doubted that the Ashigaru were aware of our presence, or, if aware of it, were in the least concerned.	10
30	718	"Do not squirm, girl!" said the leader of the Ashigaru.	10
30	730	"Fumitaka is already asleep," said one of the Ashigaru.	10
30	739	"We were inveigled into drink, noble one!" cried the leader of the Ashigaru.	10
30	745	"I shall jolly them!" said the voice, and I heard some more blows, and protests, now, perhaps, from the other two Ashigaru.	10
30	763	One must not judge all Ashigaru by these happy fellows, many of whom are disciplined, loyal, well-trained, reliable, valuable, dangerous men".	10
31	7	The three Ashigaru still lay on their bellies on the floor.	10
31	96	Arashi then returned his attention to the three prone Ashigaru.	10
31	117	As there were several thousand men involved, hundreds of warriors and a great many Ashigaru, I supposed it must be several.	10
32	74	Who would be the first to fling himself upon the brandished glaives of determined Ashigaru? Yet, I was sure the bandits, despite the danger, and despite their fear, and their dread of the unknown quantity of the forces outside, would respond to Arashi's command.	10
32	85	I stomped on his wrist and the hilt was free, and then, with a sweeping kick, I slid the loose blade across the floor, between the Ashigaru, to Yasushi, who seized it up with a cry of elation.	10
32	146	"Bind him," said Yasushi, to the three Ashigaru, the foragers, "two leashes, and the other will herd him with a glaive".	10
32	158	Arashi, his upper body swathed with rope, two rope leashes on his neck, each in the keeping of an Ashigaru, stood framed in the doorway.	10
33	7	Usually Ashigaru would be more in evidence.	10
33	21	"I do not see why twenty warriors would pursue Arashi, and his band, with not even one Ashigaru".	10
33	31	"Consider warriors," said Haruki, "twenty, consider the absence of Ashigaru, consider one who leads, a special officer to the shogun".	10
35	48	First came Arashi, the bandit, swathed with ropes, two rope leashes on his neck, each in the grasp of a glaive-bearing Ashigaru, two of the foragers first met in the inn.	10
35	49	Behind Arashi came the third Ashigaru, the third of the foragers, and he, particularly in the vicinity of the camp, would poke Arashi in the back with the point of his glaive.	10
38	96	None carried glaives, the common weapon of the Ashigaru.	10
39	1	Pertinax; There is Work to be Done I stepped back behind a tent and a squad of Ashigaru hurried past, bearing glaives.	10
41	8	"Nonetheless, friend Haruki," I said, "have you located the unimportant, even despicable, slave, in whom Tajima has little, or no, interest?" We moved back a bit amongst the tents, as a squad of glaive-bearing Ashigaru, in double file, sped past.	10
42	17	"Two Ashigaru are at the entrance," said Ichiro.	10
42	38	There were five to deal with, two Ashigaru at the entrance, two more within the tent, and the whip master, who was an officer and warrior.	10
42	45	When two Ashigaru came about the tent to investigate the local collapse of canvas they encountered Haruki, apparently bewildered, who called their attention to the loose ropes and sagging canvas, not that this situation really required his exposition.	10
42	47	It was shortly thereafter that the other two Ashigaru came to look into the matter, perhaps curious to know what was delaying their fellows.	10
42	50	We joined Ichiro and the officer, both now well within the tent, as soon as we had dragged the four Ashigaru to the back of the tent, outside, and tucked them under the sagging canvas.	10
42	53	He was then conducted to the rear of the tent, which was half collapsed, where he beheld four unconscious Ashigaru.	10
42	55	We left Haruki to bind and gag the four Ashigaru and the officer, as it was not clear how long they would remain in their state of inert serenity.	10
42	91	"At the time of Lord Yamada's supper," said Pertinax, "Lord Akio slew the would-be assassin, despite the fact that the fellow had already been subdued by Ashigaru".	10
42	177	"Given the escape, the number of fugitives, and such, I would expect the perimeter to be infested with Ashigaru".	10
43	171	More Ashigaru were about now, and I made it a point to avoid their eyes.	10
43	172	"Ashigaru," I said.	10
43	187	"There seem four there, three Ashigaru and an officer".	10
43	188	"But many Ashigaru are about," said Ichiro, "who might be easily summoned".	10
44	71	Had we departed from the road, or wide path, that lined with white stones, Ashigaru would have investigated.	10
44	74	With him were three Ashigaru, which, now, to my surprise, I recognized as the three fellows whom Tajima had entertained in the inn a few pasangs to the west, the fellows who had been disappointingly casual about fetching their gathered rice to the supply wagons, but had been more than helpful in app...	10
44	77	There were more than a hundred Ashigaru within hailing distance.	10
44	113	There are fewer Ashigaru about, watchful, ready to kill on sight.	10
44	118	"I, and the three required Ashigaru".	10
44	183	This cry was taken up on the outer parapet, by officers and Ashigaru.	10
46	77	"No common soldiers are here," said Tajima, "no Ashigaru, no common warriors.	10
47	58	No sooner than Nodachi, Pertinax, Tajima, Haruki, and I had been admitted through the great portal we had been set upon by dozens of waiting Ashigaru, purportedly placed to lead us into the presence of Lord Yamada.	10
47	156	Amongst those present were some five or six officers, some warriors, and several Ashigaru, some with glaives, others with bows, mostly small bows, some with quivers behind their left shoulder, some with quivers at their left hip.	10
47	161	Each end of this rope was in the keeping of an Ashigaru.	10
47	166	This stand and the rack were flanked by two Ashigaru.	10
47	205	The Ashigaru nearest the arrow stand then handed him one of the long arrows.	10
47	223	Lord Yamada extended his hand, in which the Ashigaru placed another arrow.	10
47	228	"May you do well!" I heard bets being taken, some amongst officers, others amongst Ashigaru.	10
47	234	An Ashigaru strung the second bow, the draw of which, I feared, was stronger than the first.	10
47	240	The two unused bows and the nine unfired arrows were now beside the shogun, a little behind him, these brought by Ashigaru.	10
47	241	The first Ashigaru carried the nine arrows.	10
47	243	A third Ashigaru, who seemed short, and brawny, was slightly in the background.	10
47	250	"Four!" whispered an Ashigaru.	10
47	260	"Ten!" cried an Ashigaru.	10
48	8	Behind three of us, Tajima, Pertinax, and myself, stood an Ashigaru, armed with a large, weighty beheading sword.	10
48	126	He then glanced to the Ashigaru who were behind Tajima and Pertinax.	10
49	12	When I was visited in my room, usually to be served food, it was brought by a slave, attended by an Ashigaru.	10
49	14	When I was conducted outside the room, as was the case for sharing tea with the shogun this afternoon, there were usually six Ashigaru in attendance.	10
49	50	I was sure now the Ashigaru had the slave in his arms.	10
49	53	The Ashigaru, the slave lifted in his arms, stepped boldly into the room and boldly into the heavy block of curved wood that Pani were accustomed, however incredibly, to utilize as a pillow.	10
49	54	The slave tumbled onto the floor, startled, crying out, and I administered a second blow to the stunned Ashigaru, this one to the back of the head.	10
49	70	I dragged the Ashigaru away, well into the room, and placed him behind the dividing screen.	10
49	73	If so, the presence if the Ashigaru would not be immediately evident.	10
49	77	I now removed the outer garments of the Ashigaru.	10
49	78	I was under no delusion that I might be mistaken for an Ashigaru at close range, by either barbarians or Pani, but the case might be otherwise at a distance, and in ill-lit corridors.	10
49	79	More importantly, considering my plan, I hoped that, in a certain situation, I might be identified as an Ashigaru simply on the basis of my garmenture.	10
49	87	After putting the outer garments of the Ashigaru to one side, together with the knife, a tanto, which I had removed from his sash, his only weapon, I used some of the strips of cloth torn from the coverlet, and fastened his ankles together, and then his wrists, behind him.	10
49	89	Coming about the screen, the knife, and outer garments, of the Ashigaru in hand, I encountered the slave, still in bara, as she had not been given permission to break position.	10
49	124	I returned to the interior of the room, to assume the outer garb and knife of the unconscious Ashigaru.	10
49	139	I reached down to pick up the garb I had removed from the unconscious Ashigaru.	10
49	184	Surely, eventually, an inquiry would take place when the Ashigaru who had conducted the slave to my chamber failed to report back to his station, but I did not expect this to take place immediately.	10
49	185	Perhaps the Ashigaru had been requested to wait.	10
49	192	One might then exit, relock the door, and, if interested, attend to the matter of relocating the missing Ashigaru.	10
49	200	"How did you obtain the garments of an Ashigaru?" inquired Pertinax.	10
49	216	It took only a moment to remove the garments of the Ashigaru, and another moment for Tajima to assume them.	10
49	222	That should allow us to approach another Ashigaru, or so, easily".	10
49	234	"At a certain point on the fifth level, a point known to me," I said, "we will encounter one or more Ashigaru, one during the day, but now, at night, perhaps two.	10
50	2	Each of us was now clad in the garments of an Ashigaru.	10
50	3	Two of us were armed with a glaive, Tajima and Pertinax, and each of us had in his sash, that of a common Ashigaru, a tanto.	10
50	28	"You do not have an officer's sash," had said the Ashigaru.	10
50	31	"It is none of your concern," said the Ashigaru.	10
50	33	"Be on your way, with your prisoners," said the Ashigaru.	10
50	35	"You cannot enter," said the Ashigaru, lowering his glaive to block the corridor.	10
50	36	At the same time, another Ashigaru, who had been leaning on his glaive in the background, half asleep, lifted his head, shook it, and advanced toward us.	10
50	37	"Begone," said the second Ashigaru, unpleasantly.	10
50	40	This would place us behind the two Ashigaru, should they advance into the main corridor.	10
50	44	It is a treasure room, is it not?" "There is no place for prisoners on the fifth level," said the second Ashigaru.	10
50	47	"There is no place for prisoners on the fifth level," said the second Ashigaru, again, angrily.	10
50	49	Common Ashigaru, of course, were not permitted to move about the palace, at will.	10
50	52	"This corridor is closed to all but high ones," said the first Ashigaru.	10
50	55	"It is not our bowl of rice," said the first Ashigaru.	10
50	59	"About what?" asked the first Ashigaru.	10
50	61	"What?" said the first Ashigaru.	10
50	63	"Speak," said the second Ashigaru, lifting the butt end of his glaive.	10
50	65	"Wait," said the second Ashigaru.	10
50	67	"We have seen things," said the first Ashigaru, "that would raise the hair on your head, that would shake and terrify you".	10
50	69	"A treasure room?" "There are beasts," whispered the second Ashigaru, "large, shaggy animals, who come and go".	10
50	74	"They enter and leave the portal at the end of the corridor," said the first Ashigaru.	10
50	78	"No," said the first Ashigaru.	10
50	81	The two Ashigaru then approached Tajima and, looking about, leaned toward him, presumably that we might not overhear what might be communicated.	10
50	82	"What was overheard?" asked the first Ashigaru, half whispering.	10
50	85	At that point Pertinax and I had seized the two Ashigaru.	10
50	166	"As you can see," I said, "we are Ashigaru, soldiers of Lord Yamada.	10
51	27	"The trussed Ashigaru will shortly be discovered," said Pertinax.	10
53	22	"Guards, Ashigaru, officers, are about," said Tajima.	10
54	6	Whereas it would be known that we were no longer in our respective incarceration chambers and had neutralized two Ashigaru near the corridor entrance, little else would be known.	10
55	158	"Where were the soldiers, the officers, and Ashigaru?" asked Pertinax.	10
56	7	It was the kitchen of an Ashigaru guard station within the palace itself.	10
56	25	"If you are not a lure girl," I said, "why did you flee from us, on the second level?" "First I thought you were Ashigaru, returned to restore order, and rejoiced, but then I saw that you, and another, two of the three, were barbarians, and I was afraid, and fled".	10
57	71	This might, of course, be supplemented by deserters from the house of Yamada, new recruitings of Ashigaru from the northern villages, and, possibly, the pledges of hitherto uncommitted daimyos, and even, possibly, those of daimyos who, in the light of recent developments, might withdraw their suppor...	10
57	200	"We could give her to an Ashigaru, when the men of Temmu arrive at the palace," said Tajima.	10
59	40	Ashigaru have returned to villages".	10
60	211	I had no doubt that the Ashigaru, some ten or so, with Lord Akio would enter the pond, but the obstacle of the floor of the bridge, and its height, would, I hoped, neutralize to some extent the effect of the glaives wielded from below, by wading men with uncertain footing.	10
60	247	"Momentarily," said Pertinax, "Ashigaru will enter the water".	10
60	271	Ten or more Ashigaru, bearing glaives, splashed into the water, five at least to each side of the bridge.	10
60	277	Pertinax seized a thrusting glaive behind the blade and yanked it up, with two hands, blood running down his right arm, shaking loose a startled Ashigaru from the shaft, he plunging back into the water.	10
60	314	Even his Ashigaru, those in the pond, water to their thighs, waded back, glaives held at the ready, away from the bridge.	10
60	426	"To pledge to my shogun a thousand Ashigaru," said Arashi.	10
61	41	"You see your danger," I had said to Lords Nishida and Okimoto, "thousands of warriors and Ashigaru".	10
61	135	Too, of course, most of the Ashigaru and warriors were at the perimeter.	10
61	259	"Your alleged masses of warriors and Ashigaru did not exist," he said.	10
61	288	Yasushi was promoted to high sword master, he who organizes and trains Ashigaru.	10
61	1049	Behind him were two Ashigaru, and, between them, in their keeping, was a woman, shamefully unveiled, but otherwise decorously clad in the many folds and colors of the robes of concealment.	10
61	1084	He then turned, and left, followed by the two Ashigaru.	10