Japan and the Japanese illustrated . A IUKTESS l,iK KIOTO. BOOK IIIKAMAKOUEA. IS riir. ;. CHAPTER I. THE RESIDENCES OF THE SIOGOUNS. THE RUINS.—THE SIOfiOUNS.—YORITOMO.—HIS — A STANDING ARMY. —THE COURT OF KIOTO AND THE SECONDARY SOVEREIGN. The environs of Kamakoura are those of a great city; but the great city itselfexists no longer. llich vegetation covers the inequalities of the soil which hasevidently accumulated over ruins, overthrown walls, and canals now filled up. 1(U LIFE IX J A VAX. Antique avenues of trees streteli beyond waste groves overgrown with
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . A IUKTESS l,iK KIOTO. BOOK IIIKAMAKOUEA. IS riir. ;. CHAPTER I. THE RESIDENCES OF THE SIOGOUNS. THE RUINS.—THE SIOfiOUNS.—YORITOMO.—HIS — A STANDING ARMY. —THE COURT OF KIOTO AND THE SECONDARY SOVEREIGN. The environs of Kamakoura are those of a great city; but the great city itselfexists no longer. llich vegetation covers the inequalities of the soil which hasevidently accumulated over ruins, overthrown walls, and canals now filled up. 1(U LIFE IX J A VAX. Antique avenues of trees streteli beyond waste groves overgrown with avenues formerly led to palaces, of which there is now no trace. InJapan, even palaces, being for the most part liuilt of wood, leave no ruins aftertheir fall. At Kamakoura the Siogouns had established their residence. Under the nameof Siogouns we recall the generals-in-chief, temporal lieutenants of the theocratic governed Japan, under the supremacy of the Mikado, from the end of the twelfthcentary to the commencement of the seventeenth, from Minam
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