Offices being allottedby sale, thousands of incapables thronged the ranks of the executive. Thenceforth there were fewmartyrs, and though Christianity was not entirely extirpated inJapan, it survived only in remote places and by stealth. proper to note that the principles enunciated in the memorialfound expression in the practice of Yoritomo himself. editary retainers of provincial nobles, nothingof their old bondage remaining except that their lives were at themercy of their masters.
Some point to hisletters, which, while they display a not inconsiderable familiaritywith Chinese ideographs, show also some flagrant neglect of the usesof that script. Kiyomori was, in truth, one of the mostdespotic rulers that ever held sway in Japan. If this difficulty operated so acutely under a ruler of Yoshimune'stalent, the confusion and disorder experienced when he withdrew hisable hand from the helm of State may be imagined. It was at this time that there arrived in Yoritomo's camp a youth oftwenty-one with about a score of followers.
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