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g, in music and dancing, incalligraphy and other forms of drawing, and in taste in landscapegardening. He is said to have arrived at the conclusionthat a sovereign should never study any useless branch of learning,and as he failed to see the utility of Buddhism, he turned toConfucianism in preference. s inhabitants showed great barbarity intheir treatment of castaways from the Ryukyu, or Loochoo, Islands. Western readers may,however, confidently accept the unanimous verdict of all modernscholars, that the interpre

Thus, the cloistered sovereigns followed faithfully in the footstepsof the Fujiwara. The 21st of March, 1185, was a day of tempest. Takatokiretreated to his ancestral cemetery at the temple Tosho-ji, and therecommitted suicide with all the members of his family and some eighthundred officers and men of his army. At fifty-one, he fell seriously ill andtook the tonsure by way of soliciting heaven's aid.