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and shrines, but also throughoutthe provinces he exerted his all-powerful influence in the samecause. Article LXXII. rian improvements under NintokuRituals, AncientRiver of Heaven, Milky WayRock, Sacred, on Kannabi mountai Its first bearer was Muto Sukeyori (Fujiwara), whoreceived the commission of Dazai no shoni from Minamoto Yoritomo.

commerce with the Middle Kingdom, and theprofits accruing from that commerce were too considerable to 254) Taira Masakado lost the aid of agreat lieutenant in his revolt because he forgot to bind up his hairproperly before he received a visitor. A party ofconverts were afterwards burnt to death in the same place forrefusing to apostatize, and their Christian friends crowded to carryoff portions of their bodies as holy relics. thesecond grade of the third rank (ju-sammi), thus for the first timeobtaining the privilege of access to the Imperial presence.