who, by posture and gesture, beat time to music, and, in afterages, became the celebrated geisha of Japan. Braziers now came into general use, and quickly became objects ofornament as well as of utility. The poorer classes of samurai being increasingly distressed, they,too, borrowed money at high rates of interest from merchants andwealthy farmers, which loans they were generally unable to repay. s and relations posts as provincialgovernors, so that they were able to organize throughout the empiremilitary forces devoted to the Taira cause.
This astute appeal is said to have moved the generals greatly. Manifestoes were then despatched inall directions, and sympathizers began to flock in. Suits involving issues that lay entirelywithin the jurisdiction of one bugyo were tried by him in his ownresidence, but where s advice, decided to remainon the defensive; an evil choice, since it entailed the tenure ofwooden buildings highly inflammable.
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