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The Taira had invited their own ruin by assimilating the waysof the Fujiwara and of the courtiers; the Minamoto aimed atpreserving and developing at Kamakura the special characteristics ofthe buke. nations in China;(c) The maintenance of the territorial rights of the High ContractingParties in the regio Hitherto her programme had been to push southward fromVladivostok along the coast of Korea, but she had now suddenly leapedKorea and found access to the Pacific by the Liaotung peninsula. Yasuhirapaid no attention, and Go-Shirakawa commissioned Yoritomo to punishthe northern chief's contumacy.

The leaders of progressfelt that the time had now come to make these measures compulsory,and, accordingly, two edicts were issued in that sense. This letter wascirculated among the feudatories, who were invited to express theiropinions on the document. Respite was obtained, however, by one of thoseheroic acts of self-sacrifice that stand so numerously to the creditof the Japanese samurai. see Sakai TadakiyoTadamori see Taira TadamoriTadateru see Matsudaira TadateruTadayoshi see Ashikaga Tadayoshi and