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of Japan's blue-blooded aristocrats, and to him theConstitutionists have yielded implicit obedience ever since. he Bakufubeing correspondingly increased, it was obviously expedient to fillhigh administrative posts with men already in possession of ampleincomes. The Russians werefinally driven back with a loss of some twenty thousand killed,wounded, or prisoners. Hence, when, inthe spring of 1188, Kamakura became aware of Yoshitsune's presence inMutsu, two consecutiv

onduct of every kind, and in the sixthyear after his accession the shogun ordered that a list should After the abolition of embassies to China, at the close of theninth century, oversea trade declined for a time. * It may, indeed, be affirmed that Shinto had never beenregarded as a religion in Japan until, in the days of the Nara Court,it was amalgamated with Buddhism to form what was calledRyobu-shinto. THE STRUGGLEWhen they learned that a great army was advancing from the Kwanto,the courtiers in Kyoto lost heart at once.