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Thus, to the Bakufu theconsequences of a war which should have strengthened allegiance andgratitude were, on the contrary, injurious and weakening. Yoshitsune saw hisopportunity. t of Fusan, who happened that day to be hunting on DeerIsland at the entrance to the harbour, and who sighted the approachof the hostile flotilla. There was noinordinate desire for landed property until the Gen-Hei epoch, when amanor became the principal reward of a successful soldier.

The Emperor credited the accusation, summoned theusurping Morinaga to the palace, and caused him to be arrested. Hedied ten years later, at the age of fifty-eight, and was interred atthe temple Zojo-ji, in the Shiba district of the eastern capital. Kwazan, distraught with grief,was approached by Kaneiye's son, Michikane, who urged him to retirefrom the world and seek in Buddhism the perfect peace thus aloneattainable. At the head of the latter stoodHideyoshi's wife, Yae, a lady gifted with large discernment, who hadshared