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The second of these consisted in the main of genealogicaltables. Kiyomori was, in truth, one of the mostdespotic rulers that ever held sway in Japan. guage as a synonym for reluctance; and when at length theymoved to the attack with eighty thousand men, Hojo Ujiy The FiveTemples of Kyoto--to be spoken of presently--were seats of learning;and many names of the litterateurs that flourished there have beenhanded down.

Inthe matter of finance, too, he resorted, as will be presently seen,to devices quite irreconcilable with just administration. In ancient language the Mikado was called a god, and that ishis real character. vourable to disturbance, in which contrivance heborrowed and extended the ideas of Nobunaga and Hideyoshi. Forty days elapsed before the Japanese forces came intoaction, and one day's fighting sufficed to carry all t