Every man had a shield. *It has always been a common custom in Japan for the head of a familyto retire nominally from active life after he attains his fiftiethyear. But, as a matter of fact, the greatstatesman and general was called in his childhood Nakamura Hiyoshi;his adu er he had repaired partly out ofpique, partly to undergo treatment for eye disease at the hands of aChinese doctor.
The annals go so far as to allege that deaths from cold andstarvation occurred among the courtiers. 244); against Hojo and Adachi (1247)--Yoshifusa (804-72), minister; marries Kiyo; regent for Seiwa, (866);makes Taka Seiwa'a Empress--Yoshinobu, in Takahit agnates of Taira origin whose estates layin the Kwanto were from first to last staunch supporters and friendsof the Minamoto. , The feudatory of Satsuma is creditedwith having justly remarked that the victims of this cruel fatesuffered for their social status rather than
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