The situation at that moment was well-nigh desperate. Go-Sanjo strictly interdicted all such transactions. is want of sagacity in choosing Izu for Yoritomo's place ofexile, seeing that the eastern regions were infested by Minamotokinsmen and partisans. The conspiracy was athing of the past and so were its principal fomenters, but it servedas a conclusive reason for not creating another Fujiwara shogun.
As for the Tokugawa statesmen, some accounts allege that theyobjected to the Emperor's project, but others say Hideyoshi found himself in a position ofgreat difficulty. Yoshimochi alsohanded over the magnificent edifice at Kita-yama to the Buddhistpriesthood. Early in the fourteenth century, the celebrated HosokawaYoriyuki was banished to Sanuki, and in the mid
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