michinori's

Updated: May 21, 2025

The great soldier himself died ultimately by his own hand in the sequel of an unsuccessful engagement with the forces of the vice-governor of Izu. Ambition impelled him to tread in the footsteps of Go-Sanjo. Michinori's character is not to be implicitly inferred from the cruel courses suggested by him after the Hogen tumult.

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