Hestarved himself to death, passing day and night in devotion, andshortly after his demise the little prince, born in answer to hisprayers, died of small-pox. There is natural sequence, therefore, in the facts that these samepriests excelled in calligraphy and introduced Japan to the pictorialart of the immortal Sung painters. Japanese annals offerno explanation of Yoshitsune's procedure on that occasion. Again and again, Japanese patience was tried by theseanomalous conditions, and although nothing occurred of sufficientmagnitude to
But friendsof the Northern Court existed also, and thus it resulted that at notime throughout the fifty-five years of the struggle were theprovinces free from strife. their disciples and their sectaries to overthrow temples? Whythey persecuted the bonzes? Why they and other Yoshitsune then called for volunteers. But neither did they fall into the error ofacting entirely on the defensive.
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