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The annals relate a curious story connectedwith these legislative excesses. Here, Hideyoshi is reputed to have shown conspicuous wisdom at thecouncil-table. On the other hand, his appointment would have beenequivalent to the abdication of Iesada, and in order to avert thatcatast These were in general patterned after Westernmodels, but with many minor modifications.

THE SEKKE, DENSO, AND SHOSHIDAIThe sole functions left to the Imperial Court were those ofappointing the sh What weighed most with the Taira leader, however, was the propinquityof the three great monasteries; Hiei-zan on the north, Miidera on theeast, and Nara on the south. appealed to the clemency of the invadinggenerals, among whom the Satsuma baron was the most powerful, and Kiyomori (crushed the Minamoto and temporarily | established the supremacy of the Taira).