Yoritomo recognized the important bearings of this project. Among this group of notables the most memorable in a historical senseare Minamoto Tametomo and Taira Kiyomori. are not contraryto the principle of equal opportunities for the commerce and industryof all nations. The former cruelpractice was strictly forbidden by Yasutoki, and, to correct thelatter defect, he adopted the plan of setting a fine example himself.
Yoritomo was notonly appointed dainagon and taisho, but also given the post ofso-tsuihoshi with powers extending to all parts of the empire. But it was a harvest mainly ofartificial growth, forced by despotic insistence of feudal chiefs whopossess The next event of cardinal importance in this much disturbed periodwas the defection of Hosokawa Kiyouji, one of the shitsuji in Kyoto. He expired at the age of sixty in March, 1181, just threemonths after the restoration of Kyoto to metropolitan rank.
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