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She mustinsist on securing the ends for which she had fought, since shebelieved them to be indispensable to the peace of the Far East, butbeyond that she would not go. In order to facilitate the levy of this last-named taxthe citizens were required to locate themselves according to th red the Kwanto on Ieyasu, he chose Yedo for the latter'scapital, the accompanying revenue being about two and a half millionkoku. The document actuallytransmitted to him was of a very different significance as thefollowing extract shows:The Emperor, who respects an

who, by posture and gesture, beat time to music, and, in afterages, became the celebrated geisha of Japan. Secluded fromcontact with the outer world, Ietsuna saw and heard mainly throughthe eyes and ears of the ladies of his household. Thus, when the largelyaugmented Minamoto force began to move westward from Harima inOctober, 1184, under the command of Noriyori, no part was assigned toYoshitsune. To him the ambition of winning the shogunatepresented itself strongly, and was only abandoned when UesugiNoriharu committed suicide to add weight to a protest against such anessay.