The High-handedness of the Prime Minister Heguri

The Chronicles of Japan, one of the oldest official documents, described intensively the first case that a political authority came to domineer over a Tennou in the reign of Buretu-Tennou in 5^th century.

This tyrant was Heguri-no-Matori, who was an Oomi, minister of the Yamato-Chotei and also was chief of one of powerful clans. In those days, not a small number of clans, gathering from all over the nation and inhabiting around Yamato, attended the Chotei to work for public duties, though there were not systematical administrative institutions as that of modern states.