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The former, because men of really noble instincts were insensible to the ambition which alone absorbed a Kyoto littérateur the ambition of figuring prominently in an approved anthology and had, at the same time, no inclination to follow the purely military creed of Kamakura. Such recluses as Kamo Chomei, Saigyo Hoshi and Yoshida Kenko were an outcome of these conditions.
In the career of Saigyo "the reverend," as his title "hoshi" signifies there were episodes vividly illustrating the manners and customs of the tune.
"This letter, if I remember rightly, I picked up in some town in Hitachi, and I shall be very glad if you will accept it, either to use it for a model if it be written beautifully, or to laugh at if it prove to have been written awkwardly." Then the chief among the maids, receiving the letter, tried to read the writing upon the envelope: "Tsuki ni hoshi ame ni arare ga kori kana,"
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