Finally, theKwanei-ji was intended to guard the Demon's Gate of the Bakufu cityas the Enryaku-ji guarded the Imperial capital. They roused him to hot anger. THE FALL OF KAMAKURAThese things happened at the close of June, 1333, and immediatelyafter the fall of Rokuhara, Nitta Yoshisada raised the Imperialstandard in the province of Kotsuke. The throne was then occupied byGo-Fukakusa (the eighty-ninth sovereign), a son of Go-Saga (theeighty-eighth sove
Fortunately for the Bakufu, the regent's son,Yasutoki, proved himself a ruler of the highest ability, and hisimmediate successors were not less worthy of the exalted office theyfilled. There really never was anysubstantial reason for doubt about such a subject. to carry it by assault, and had recourseto the device of damming and banking a river so as to flood thefortress. mperial rescript to; power resigned to CrownShohei, Japanese pronunciation of Changping, Confucius's birthplace;Shohei-bashi, bridge, Sho
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