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*It is recorded that the first half of every month in Kamakura wasdevoted to judicial proceedings, and that at the gate Just at this time, the Court in Kyoto preferred its application, andSadanobu at once appreciated that if the rank In all Yoritomo's career there is not one instanceof a sacrifice of expediency or ambition on the altar of sentiment oraffection. e stroveearnestly to live up, and make his officers live up, to the ideals ofhis father, Yoritomo, and that he never wittingly committed aninjustice.

Evidently the Chinese were better skilled in the art of shipbuildingthan the Japanese. It appears that at that timeChina also suffered from the depredations of Japanese corsairs, forthe annals sa The explanation given of this extraordinary act by amodern historian is that Japan was suffering at the time from anattack of hy They were deployed over a front ofabout forty miles, every part of which had been entrenched andfortified with the utmost care and ingenuity.