ABSTRACT
T h o u g h the administration of the Kamakura Bakufu had won for it general confidence and credit, and though the successful repulse of the two Mongol invasions in 1274 and 1281 had crowned it with glory, yet in the next century it began to show signs of weakness and suddenly collapsed. The earlier Hojo Regents were men of exceptionally high character, but after the abdication of Sa4atoki, the seventh, the real power was wielded by Ministers of doubtful probity, and the ninth and last Regent, Takatoki, is generally described by historians as a youth of weak intelligence and vicious habits.
