Long before Rozhdestvensky reached the Far East, he fell into touchwith Japanese scouts, and every movement of his ships was flashed tothe enemy. the same interval, it is found that one-quarter of thegold coins and three-quarters of the silver left the country. On learning of thisincident, Kiyomori ordered three hundred men to lie in wait for theregent, drag him from his car and cut off his cue. Meanwhile, Yoshitomo had ridden away to the houseof Osada Tadamune, father of his comrade Masaie's wife.
The Emperor convokes the Imperial Diet, opens, closes,and prorogues it, and dissolves the House of Representatives. Theirheads, together with that of Hidetsugu himself, were buried in thesame grave, over which was set a tablet bearing the inscription, Tomb of the Traitor, Hidetsugu. The Khaninsisted, and supplemented his first command with instructions thatagricultural operations sh THE SHINGON SECTIt was not to Dengyo, however, that Japan owed her most mysteriousform of Buddhism, but to his contemporary, Kukai, remembered byposterity as Kobo Daishi.
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