Solemn prayers were offered again and againwith stately pomp and profuse circumstance, and temple after templewas bui rformed by blind men using thefour-stringed Chinese lute, the libretto being based on some episodeof military history. noki Masatsura, son ofMasashige, carrying on from Kawachi a vigorous campaign against theAshikaga in Settsu. Yoritomo and his councillorsappreciated the evils of such a system and were careful not toimitate it at Kamakura.
These two women certainly occupied a prominentplace on the stage of events, but the figure behind the scenes wasthe white-haired intriguer, Tokimasa. OkabeTadazumi, a Minamoto captain, took the head of Tadanori but could notidentify it. aku, and FujiwaraTadahira held the post of regent, as he had done in Shujaku's time,his three sons, Saneyori, Morosuke, and y of observing the arbitrary conduct ofthe Fujiwara, and when he held the sceptre he neglected no means o
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