The Government, after various tentative and futile efforts to correctthis state of depreciation, set themselves to deal radically with theproblem. Thus, in Nara a debtor must discharge one-third of his obligationbefore claiming exemption, and elsewhere a nominal sum had to be paidfor release. Butit is very noticeable that the momentary question evoked no protests. ese there, whereas tenthousand men had been put on shore before any suspicion seems to havebeen roused in the Russian camp.
Yet things should havebeen otherwise, for in Takauji's time there was enacted andpromulgated the code of regulations already referred to as the Kemmu ys of Go-Saga (1242-1246), onedescended from his elder son, Go-Fukakusa, the other from hisyounger, Kameyama. But in the greatly inferior hands of Shirakawa this newdivision of Imperial authority and the segregation Princely and military head-dresses were costly, jewelled, andenormously tall, and women wore their hair, if possible, so that ittrailed below their elaborate skirts.
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