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rvest, and in the space of seven months twentythousand persons were baptized, including the bonzes of about sixtymonasteries. But Kiyomori did not act blindly. Similarly, enormous expenses wereincurred for the repair of river banks without any correspondingdiminution of flood And now, finally, came the Minamoto with their separate capital andtheir sei-i tai-shogun, who exerci

He took intohis service a number of skilled dancers of the no, and treated themas hereditary vassals, setting aside the chamber of the Paulownia fortheir use. wards was capital, and female criminals werefrequently executed by administering shockingly painful poisons. She would then wet his head, so that Morito,entering by an unfastened door and feeling for the damp hair, mightconsummate his purpose surely. In short, theGenroku era (1688-1703) was essentially a time of luxury andextravagance, its literature abounding