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On the contrary, he seems to have imagined that thefight had struck terror into the hearts of the islanders bydisclosing their faulty tactics and inferior weapons. The result of his strenuous services was to check the corruptionwhich had come to pervade every department of State in the clo accessible by fortune, and fromthe same record we are compelled to infer that he could be cruel andimplacable on occasion. His mother, to escape the resentment ofYoritomo's wife, Masa, fled to Kyushu, and Tadahisa, having beennamed g

havetheir noses and ears cut off;* to be promenaded through Kyoto, Osaka,and Sakai, and to be crucified at Nagasaki. But this feature does not seem tohave counted so much in Yoritomo's eyes as the fact that his father,Yoshitomo, had chosen Kamakura Then Kusunoki Masanori passed into theNorthern camp. Go-Shirakawa seems to have perceived the radical character of theproposed measure.