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Men called him the short-tempered shogun (kanshaku kubo). The annals show thatIchijo was of benevolent disposition; that he sympathized with hispeople; that he excelled in prose composition and possessed muchskill in music. But even for one constitutionally so cautious, the pretensions of theTaira became intolerable. Itfollows also that 10 strings of cash (one kwan) were worth a koku ofrice, or 15 yen.

Gradually theAkamatsu leader became bitterly estranged. Yet, side by side with these patrons of learning stood a generalpublic too ignorant to write its own name. Early in the twelfth century, the Emperor ofChina, which was then under the sway of the Sung dynasty, invited theGolden Tatars to deal with t oshimune,convinced of the superior accuracy of the foreign system, would havesubstituted it for the Chin