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2020年 08月 02日

16. Tokiyori Pardons Nichiren. (4)

         Japanese edition


Yoritsuna Taira passed the gate. The samurai of the guard shuddered.

Youth Yoritsuna walks with an arrogant face. His looks had the hooked nose, which seemed to symbolize strong volition and had thin and sharp eyes like beaming light. It is said that he was short.

Yoritsuna Taira, people called him Heino-saemon-no-joh. He is the undersecretary serving regent Hojo. It is said a butler, too. He was only 20 years old.

Moritoki of his grandfather was an aide to Yoritomo Minamoto. Moritoki may be said that he was a secretary. He wrote orders introducing will of the Kamakura Shogunate into the whole country as an amanuensis of busy Yoritomo. The record that Moritoki plays a part in 'the Mirror of the East' is left. Moritsuna of his child supported the three generations of Hojo Yasutoki, Tsunetoki and Tokiyori. Yoritsuna who succeeded this father becomes an aide of Tokimune. Yoritsuna was already top on the list of the undersecretary which assisted the Kamakura Shogunate in spite of being a youth.

Originally his ancestors are ordinary clerical staffs. They had no power, but because the Hojo clan who succeeded Yoritomo became frantic for a struggle for power and destroyed the influential clan of Wada and Miura, they were given an important role as the undersecretary and became powerful.

It is the course of nature that an aide acquires power with Hojo clan becomes a dictator. This is because the instructions of the dictators are always given by an aide. With the downfall of the outside vassals, the undersecretary such as Yoritsuna took the power. Yasumori Adachi was the only one who could be opposed to Yoritsuna Tairano in outside vassals now.

While Yoritsuna looks around, he advances.

His clan is said to be 100 people or 200. As a representative of them, he looked people down completely.

He appeared and sat in front of the master Tokiyori.

Yasumori watches Yoritsuna viciously. Yasumori Adachi is a leader of the vassals, and Yoritsuna is a leader of the undersecretaries. The places to stand are different. The antagonism of both is fate.

“Did you call for me, sir?”

"Saemon-no-jo, your family has protected Hojo from generation to generation. Must protect from every enemy as same as me, positioning this Tokimune as the pillar."

Saemon-no-jo answers graciously.

“Very good, sir. As a butler of Hojo”.

When he said so, he looked at Yasumori and the other vassals.

“I will do away with a man who resist lord Tokimune by all means”.

The vassals were trembled violently with this speech of Saemon-no-jo.

Tokiyori lay on the bed with relief and said an unexpected thing.

“This is my last will too. Pardon Nichiren”.

“Do you pardon Nichiren?”.

Yasumori is surprised and speaks unconsciously.

“Our lord, we banished Nichiren to Izu on the suspicion of having disturbed the Shogunate. Why do you pardon him?”.

Tokiyori says while seeing a ceiling.

“I have committed the rash act. I gave him punishment tentative, but that monk will not harm us. Although I obeyed what the person around said, he is innocent if I watch it with a clear eye. My death is near. I want to neaten all the thing becoming regretful before dying”.

Yasumori is against him.

“Nichiren is the man who criticized the politics of our lord. I request your reconsideration”.

Tokiyori grinned.

“There are a lot of my subordinates. I can see it that they seem all to serve me. But nobody gives opinion to me. Forgive that upright Nichiren. He may support us some time".

Tokimune closed his eyes.

Tokimune prepared for the death of the father, and cried.

“Father!”.

However, after Nichiren was pardoned in February 1263, Tokiyori miraculously recovered. Nine months after this day, he passed away on November 22 while watching the growth of Tokimune. He was a 37-year-old.


Continued to (5)

Life of Nichiren. Vol. 1. Contents



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