vealone of those saints whose preaching and ministration have bestowed aperpetual blessing on humanity. , two of which were paid with rice andone with money, the value of a koku of rice being fixed atforty-eight mon of silver (four-fifths of a gold ryo). Go-Shirakawa himself,and the latter, while bitterly resenting this state of affairs, foundhimself powerless to correct it. required tomake any sudden decision under stress of unexpected menace; they hadample notice of the course events were taking.
He now became asimplacable an enemy as he had previously been a loyal friend. many as he pleased to his own name; andwielding absolute authority in Kyoto, he could have obtained anytitle he desired. If the decrees of the Courtclashed with those of the cloister, as was occasionally inevitable,the former had to give way. Iwaki-uji Miura-no-suk
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