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During the thirteen generations of their sway there was norespite from struggle between family and family or between chief andvassal. fteenth year,was compelled to abdicate in favour of his younger brother, Juntoku,aged thirteen, the eighty-fourth occupant of the throne. There was no reaction, and thememory of the apprehensions then freely uttered finds nothing butridicule to-day. hich requestbeing rejected, he left the capital without paying final respects tothe Throne, an omission astutely calculated to attract partisans.