Yoritomo's keen insight discerned in hishalf-brother's attitude something more than mere rivalry. the same interval, it is found that one-quarter of thegold coins and three-quarters of the silver left the country. At an earlystage, some vague news of the plot reached Kiyomori's ears and hehastened from his Fukuhara villa to Kyoto. It needhardly be said that outside clans fared no better.
Teika's son, Tameiye, won such favour in the eyes of theKamakura shogun, Sanetomo, that the latter conferred on him the manorof Hosokawa, in Harima. ed across a calm, moonlitsea and delivered a torpedo attack on the Russian squadron at PortArthur, the omary to appoint one kebiishiin each of its districts, whereas elsewhere the establishment was oneto each province. noble contempt for money gave place to the omnipotence ofgold in military and civil circles alike.
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