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Yorimitsu, his son, astill greater strategist, was a prominent figure at five Courts, fromthe days of Enyu, and his broth The receipt of the letter naturally led to a change of plan, andalthough desperate fighting subsequently took place, the castle wasfinally set on fire by traitors and its fate was seen to be hopeless. The law was not construed exactly alike everywhere. In recognition of this service, Koken was raisedto high ecclesiastical rank.

s departure from Hiei-zan by summoning tohis presence Yoshisada with the other Nitta leaders and sentencingthem to death. THE SHINGON SECTIt was not to Dengyo, however, that Japan owed her most mysteriousform of Buddhism, but to his contemporary, Kukai, remembered byposterity as Kobo Daishi. Meanwhile, the shogun, who had been ill for some time, died, and hisdecease was pleaded as a pretext for postponing discussion with theAmericans. One of his first acts afterabdication was to take another consort, a daughter of FujiwaraTadazane, whom he made Empress under the name