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That night, Yoshisada prayed at theshrine of Hiyoshi: Look down on my loyalty and help me to perform myjourney safely so that I may raise an army to destroy the insurgents. The agent of his flight was aniron-merchant who habitually visited the monastery on matters ofbusiness, and whose dealings took him occasionally to Mutsu. cultivationin Awa; orange growing in Kii, and the curing of bonito in Tosa andSatsuma--all these began to flourish. But Kiyomori seems to havethought that as the centres of Taira strength lay in the south andwest of the empire, the province of Settsu would be a more convenientcitadel than Kyoto.

Fivegreat temples thus came into existence in the Bakufu capital, and asthe Chinese bonzes planned and superintended their const These septs, finding themselves so powerful, becameunmanageable. Eleven monthshave exhausted our strength. But very little intelligence had been exercised in planningit.