f YoshimitsuJosetsu (end of 14th century), bonze of Shokoku-ji, painterJoye see Fujiwara JoyeJuko see ShukoJun, mother of Michiyasu (Montok Nothing abrupt would be tolerable. She gavebirth to two princes and five princesses, and the house of Konoe,which had been instrumental in procuring her summons to the Court,became the leader of the Go-sekke. The bushi ofthese days knew nothing about bastions, curtains, glacis, or cognaterefinements of military engineering.
The performers were known as biwa-bozu, the name bozu (Buddhist priest) being derived from the fact that they shavedtheir heads after the manner of bonzes. **Encylopaedia Britannica, (11th Edition); article Japan, byBrinkley. It isnot to be supposed, however, that these high constables andland-stewards were suffered to subject the people within theirjurisdiction to arbitrary or extortionate treatment. He is said to have arrived at the conclusionthat a sovereign should never study any useless branch of learning,and as he failed to see the utility of Buddhism, he turned toConfucianism in preference.
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