TOBAHorikawa died in 1107, after a reign of twenty years, and wassucceeded by his son Toba, a child of five. Okuma's secession was followed quickly by an edict promising theconvention of a national assembly in ten years. Many heroic incidents marked the catastrophe andshowed the spirit animating the bushi of that epoch. The strangers were hospitablyreceived by the Japanese, and great interest was excited by theirarquebuses, the first firearms ever seen in Japan.
Careful perusal of the well-known work,Masukagami, shows that from year's end to year's end the samep History relates that to betransferred from one fief to another, even without nominal loss ofrevenue, was regarded as a calamity of ten years' duration. the Ghokodo estate, though it had been bequeathed as asolatium for exclusion from the succession; whereas the princ The Hojo adopted towards the shoguns the samepolicy as that previously pursued by the Fujiwara towards thesovereigns--appointment during the years of childhood and removalon reaching full manhood.
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