le fortifications and supported bya formidable and superior artillery, was, in a single day, fairlyswept out of its trenches. The fight at Dan-no-ura could not have made him famous, for its issuewas determined by defection in the enemy's ranks, not by anystrategical device or opportune coup on the side of the victors. Soon a cry went up,and gained constantly in volume and vehemence, a cry for therestoration of the military regime. It is certain,however, that other and stronger reasons influenced the Bakufu primeminister.
Yoritomo urged that only by full restitution of thisproperty could a sense of security be imparted to the people. They fell at the outset to a discountof fifty per cent, and various devices, more or less despotic, wereemployed to compel their circulation at par. It was, in fact, evident that the attitude of the official classestowards the new-comers was mainly influenced by the prospect oftr Then(1491) Nagauji quietly took possession of the province of Izu,building for himself a castle at Hojo.
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