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THE TAIRA AND THE FUJIWARAIn human affairs many events ascribed by onlookers to design arereally the outcome of accident or unforseen opportunity. We knowthat, after nearly two months of incessant combat, the Yuan armieshad made no sensible impression on the Japanese resistance orestablished any footing upon Japanese soil. The central channel is navigable by smallcraft, and the other channels are fordable waist-deep. He erected theTemple of the 33,333 Images of Kwannon (the Sanjusangen-do) in Kyoto;he made four progresses to the monastery at

s of discretion, entrusting him, meanwhile, to theguardianship of two officials, the more active of whom was a laypriest, Nagasaki Enki. hesitate to remove thesescruples by addressing a despatch to the deity with orders to watchover the safety of the steeds. It is recordedthat when the famine was at its height, rice could not be obtained insome parts of the country for less than forty ryo a koku. Nevertheless, it stands to the credit of these bonzesthat they made no attempt to monopolize erudition.