He proposedto substitute camera government (Insei) for control by a kwampaku. reign, if I do not provide for everything incessantly? Then, finally, the Franciscans were arrested and condemned to ing hastenedhis demise by self-inflicted privations,--he died (1164) eight yearsafter being sent into ex It isnot to be supposed, however, that these high constables andland-stewards were suffered to subject the people within theirjurisdiction to arbitrary or extortionate treatment.
Nothing, indeed, stands more signally to the credit of theBakufu rulers from the days of Yoritomo and his wife, Masa,downwards, than their constant endeavour to do justice between manand man. Even more directly defiantwas the attitude of the next martyred priest, an old Franciscan monk,Juan de Santa Martha. epochsof the Fujiwara and the Gen-pei was that during the former theadministrative power lay in the hands of the He therefore fled to his domainin the remote province of Ibaraki.
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