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He therefore repaired to the palace, and simulating ignorance of what had passed between the late sovereign and the kwampaku, inquired whether it was intended that Prince Takahito should enter a monastery. Go-Reizei replied emphatically in the negative and related the facts, whereupon Yoshinobu declared that the prince should be nominated forthwith.
When the Emperor Go-Shujaku was mortally ill, he appointed his eldest son, Go-Reizei, to be his successor, and signified his desire that the latter's half-brother, Takahito, should be nominated Crown Prince. To him, also, the dying sovereign made known his wishes. Now Takahito had not been born of a Fujiwara mother.
It was done, and thus for the first time in a long series of years a successor to the throne was proclaimed who had not the qualification of a Fujiwara mother. There remained to the kwampaku only one way of expressing his dissent. Yorimichi declined to make the presentation in the case of Prince Takahito on the ground that he was not of Fujiwara lineage.
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