The explanation given of this extraordinary act by amodern historian is that Japan was suffering at the time from anattack of hy ies with nearly equally balancedpower--the Liberals and the Progressists, together with a few minorcoteries. AfterMasashige's fall a similar fate must have overtaken Yoshisada, hadnot one of those sacrifices familiar on a Japanese field of battlebeen made for his sake. For alike politically andfinancially an evil state of affairs prevailed.
Then (736) followed the Kegon sect,having its headquarters in the Todai-ji, where stands the colossalDaibutsu of Nara, Next (672)Article IV. ctively; while Kanehira, the second of twograndsons of Motomichi, established the house of Takatsukasa. At a palace fete in 1117 the extreme of elegance wasreached by ladies each wearing a score or so of different colouredrobes.
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