As for the throne, its chiefly remarkable feature wasthe brevity of its occupation by successive sovereigns: Japan;submits to Jingo; Japanese attacks on; Chinese immigration; revoltagainst Yuryaku; weakened; dispute over Imun; ship-bui y was made Christian, and thepeople burned their idols and destroyed forty temples, reserving somematerials to build churches. But by what avenue would he enter the Sea of Japan? The queryoccupied attention in all the capitals of the world during severaldays, and conjectures were as numerous as they were conflicting.
He assigned to them a residence in the Rokuon-ji, his ownfamily temple, and there he visited them to hear discourses onBuddhist doctrine and to consult about administrative affairs. Thegreat artist, Kanaoka, of the end of the ninth century worked atlaying out these rockeries and tiny parks. A Buddhistpriest, Gwana, constructed grass huts to which the famished suffererswere carried on bamboo stretchers to be fed with soft, boiled millet. Inaccepting Takauji's overtures, Kitabatake Chikafusa, who directed thepolitics and strategy of the Southern Court, had designed to
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