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YORITOMO's CHARACTERJapanese historians have written much about this illustrious man. ); bell-tower (ill. The question of the succession thus acquired immediate importance. ra succeeded to the sixdistricts of Mutsu, which constituted the largest estate in the handsof any one Japanese noble.

The president(betto) obviously occupied a post of prime importance, as hepractically controlled all the retainers (keniri) of the Minamotoclan and its allied houses. t of the shogun depended upon hiswill, and though a subject of the Emperor, he administered functionsfar exceeding those of the Imperial Court. It is necessary now to look at thereverse of the picture. Shereached Japan in the spring of 1600, with only four and twentysurvivors of her original crew, numbering 110.