unted to thepurchase of an area of Japanese territory by Russia, who paid for itwith a part of Japan's belongings. A notable feature of the military operations of that era wascelerity. But there can be no hesitation in concluding that a rupturebetween the two Minamoto chiefs was presaged by Yoritomo's entourage,who judged that two Richmonds could not remain permanently in thefield. It would beunjust to assume that without full testimony such a man sentenced awhole family of his own relatives to be executed.
Suchgrants, as has been already shown, were not infrequent. Moreover, the transfer ofthe true regalia constituted the very essence of legitimatesuccession. ll as upon Tamba and Omi, neither to the Emperor norto the Imperial princes nor to the Court nobles were estates granteddirectly. vented the giving of presents in the ordinary routine of socialconventions, so that it became necessa
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