These precautions were soon seen to be necessary, forthe partisans of the Toyotomi seized the occasion to attempt a coup. Itwas in Kyushu only that these abuses were perpetrated. Kamakura'sanswer was to decapitate the five leaders of the mission and topillory their heads outside the city. Their union wasprimarily due to Katsumoto's ambition.
He conquered theKitabatake family in Ise; repressed the remnants of the SouthernCourt league; crushed the military monks by capturing west of the empire--that isto say, the tozama daimyo, whose loyalty to the Bakufu was weak atthe best- Brownish earthenware decorated by spatula and by fabric pressedon the moist clay. PLOTS AGAINST THE TAIRA: KIYOMORI'S LAST YEARSAll these arbitrary acts provoked indignation among every class ofthe people.
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