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e devices recommended by the Chinese strategists, whosebooks on the method of conducting warfare were closely studied inthose days by the Japanese. Nolonger, however, were envoys sent from Korea to Japan, and evidenceof the outrages committed from time to time by Japanese pirates DEATH OF MASASHIGEGo-Daigo, in Kyoto, summoned Kusunoki Masashige to a conference. Again and again, Japanese patience was tried by theseanomalous conditions, and although nothing occurred of sufficientmagnitude to

This marked asignal departure from the severe rules of former days. The Court nobles in the middle of the fourteenthcentury had no functions except those of a ceremonial nature and werefrankly despised by the haughty bushi. Officials sent from Japan proper to make an investigationreported that Kamchatka, hitherto a dependency of Japan, PLOTS AGAINST THE TAIRA: KIYOMORI'S LAST YEARSAll these arbitrary acts provoked indignation among every class ofthe people.