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Updated: August 27, 2024
It is said that his Majesty's manner of choosing between the two lads was most capricious. He had them brought into his presence, whereupon the elder began to cry, the younger to laugh, and Go-Shirakawa at once selected the latter, who thenceforth became the Emperor Go-Toba. Yoshinaka's fortunes began to ebb from the time of his failure to obtain the nomination of Prince Hokuriku.
It was practically to Mochihito that the Court owed its rescue from the Taira tyranny, and his son now a youth of seventeen, known as Prince Hokuriku, because he had founded an asylum at a monastery in Hokuriku-do after his father's death had been conducted to Kyoto by Yoshinaka, under a promise to secure the succession for him.
But Go-Shirakawa would not pay any attention to these representations. He held that Prince Hokuriku was ineligible, since his father had been born out of wedlock, and since the prince himself had taken the tonsure; the truth being that the ex-Emperor had determined to obtain the crown for one of his own grandsons, younger brothers of Antoku.
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