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Updated: May 26, 2025

The lady Masa and her brother remained as powerful as ever and as careless of the Court's dignity. Two events now occurred which materially hastened a rupture. One was connected with an estate, in the province of Settsu, conferred by Go-Toba on a favourite a shirabyoshi, "white measure-marker," as a danseuse of those days was called.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era