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rn of hisfirst embassy, he immediately issued orders to the Koma King to buildone thousand ships and mobilize forty thousand troops. Their success was due to observingfrugality, treating the people with kindness, meting out strictjustice, and faithfully obeying the ancestral behest to abstain fromseeking high titles. Japanese historians regard Fujiwara Shinzei as chiefly responsiblefor these untoward events. Two years previously to this event, the tumult in Kyotohad culminated in an attack on the palace of the

it, somuch so that by the debilitating effects of this discord thesupremacy of the sept was long deferred. ndsteward; as shogun (1202); killed by Tokimasa--Yorimasa (1106-80), sides with Taira, killed--Yorimitsu Thus, it fell out thateverybody being anxious to conform with the rules, the universaltendency was to share in preserving the peace. Duringthe space of five years this plot escaped Kamakura's attention.