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is at its core a story about warriors and lower-ranking nobles. Go-Shirakawa is criticised for his failure to recognise and reward men of ability, both by promoting the incompetent
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towards a more complicated focus which suggests a need for more nuanced principles and more flexible policies which become more appropriate to desperate times.
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