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In brief, thesupporters of the Northern Court followed the military polity of theBakufu while the Southern adopted Imperialism. A more substantial calamity resulted, however, from the habit ofignoring the right of primogeniture in favour of arbitrary selection. aboration of a proper system oftaxation; the organization of a staff to administer annual budgets;the re-assessment of taxable property; the floating of public loansfor They did not venture to protest against thearrangement as an Imperial prerogative.

This reservation immediately became an object of attack byparty politicians. Go-Shirakawa sent two messages at a brief interval to invite theKamakura chief's presence in the capital. During eight hundred years no female had wieldedthe sceptre of Japan, and the princess was not without a brotherolder than herself, though born of a different mother. The classes of people to whom thejisha-bugyo's jurisdiction extended were numerous: they embraced thecemetery-keepers at Momij