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It was amost unequal contest. ory over the SouthernCourt after the death of Kusunoki Masatsura, turned suddenlynorthward from Yamato and hastened back to Kyoto. even within its precincts, for the palace itself wasnot secure against incendiarism and depredation. Nototherwise can we account for the fact that, within the brief periodof eleven years, he undertook and completed five great worksinvolving enormous cost.

and villas; the practice andteaching of polite accomplishments, such as music and versification;dancing, handba , and to condemn the occupant of the throne to sit with foldedhands was to reduce him to the rank of a puppet. Michinaga continued to act as regent,holding, at the same time, the office of minister of the Left, but hesubsequently handed over the regency to his son, Yorimichi, becominghimself chancellor. o which their rustic manners and customs had exposedthem at the hands of their upstart kinsmen in Kyoto.