Saito Musashi-bo Benkei : tales of the wars of the Gempei, being the story of the lives and adventures of Iyo-no-Kami Minamoto Kuro Yoshitsune and Saito Musashi-bo Benkei the warrior monk . even if Kiyomori, instead of the superlativelyinefficient Munemori, had directed the last efforts of theTaira. But the mans political ability as a wire puller, andhis immense prestige, would have made the issue far more * Tametoruo was one of those infant prodigies in the military Napoleon full blown (embryonic) at thirteen (sic). In these youth-ful captains we have cases of little John Grenvile, mou
Saito Musashi-bo Benkei : tales of the wars of the Gempei, being the story of the lives and adventures of Iyo-no-Kami Minamoto Kuro Yoshitsune and Saito Musashi-bo Benkei the warrior monk . even if Kiyomori, instead of the superlativelyinefficient Munemori, had directed the last efforts of theTaira. But the mans political ability as a wire puller, andhis immense prestige, would have made the issue far more * Tametoruo was one of those infant prodigies in the military Napoleon full blown (embryonic) at thirteen (sic). In these youth-ful captains we have cases of little John Grenvile, mounted on hisfathers (Sir Bevil) horse, and charging in the company of the giantAnthony Payne urging on Sir Bevils retainers at the battle of LansdownHill in 1643 It would be hard to find, in and out of Japanese history, a more in-famous character -than this Yoshitomo; the cup of his iniquity not yetbeing full at the daj;e we have reached. The Japanese do not regard himin that light. He is one of their heroes, over-reached by the astuterKiyomori. So he was regarded by the men of his time, and so Insstory is regarded to day. This is Bushidd—o£ the twelfth and twentiethcentury-. KURANDO MINAMOTO TAMETOMO. INTRODUCTION. 137 doubtful. But Kiyomori made no real change in thepolitical life of Old Japan. He substituted Taira forFujiwara, and continued in the old way. In the kogo was chosen from the Taira clan, Kiyomorihaving previously governed through a child Tenno. In1158 Go-Shirakawa abdicated. He never was anyrthing but a shadow and a puppet in Kiyomoris succeeded at the age of sixteen years, and abdicated attwenty-two; Eokujo (1166-1168 ) succeeded at theripe age of three years, and abdicated at the riper(relatively) age of six ; Takakura succeeded at the age ofeight, married Taira no Tokuko (Kiyomoris daughter)at eleven, and at nineteen was forced to abdicate infavour of her two year old son, grand-son of Kiyomori,—Antoku. But this is merely
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