Impossibility of squeezing anything more out of Koryu, and
the delicate condition of home affairs, united in causing him to give up
the project of conquering Japan, and he countermanded the order for the
building of boats and the storing of grain." (II. p. 82.)
Japan was then, for more than a century (A.D. 1205-1333), governed really
in the name of the descendants of Yoritomo, who proved unworthy of their
great ancestor "by the so-called 'Regents' of the Hojo family, while their
liege lords, the Shoguns, though keeping a nominal court at Kamakura, were
for all that period little better than empty names. So completely were the
Hojos masters of the whole country, that they actually had their deputy
governors at Kyoto and in Kyushu in the south-west, and thought nothing of
banishing Mikados to distant islands. Their rule was made memorable by the
repulse of the Mongol fleet sent by Kublai Khan with the purpose of adding
Japan to his gigantic dominions. This was at the end of the 13th century,
since which time Japan has never been attacked from without." (B. H.
Chamberlain, Things Japanese, 3rd ed., 1898, pp. 208-209.)
The sovereigns (Mikado, Tenno) of Japan during this period were:
Kameyama-Tenno (1260; abdicated 1274; repulse of the Mongols);
Go-Uda-Tenno (1275; abdicated 1287); Fushimi-Tenno (1288; abdicated
1298); and Go-Fushimi Tenno.
