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130.SHIMADZU HISAYO'S GRANT,1411
(Iriki-in docs.; also KK, IV; SK, XXIV.)
DESPITE the wish expressed in 1404 by the retired sho-gun, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, that they com-
posed their differences, the two branches of the Shimadzu continued their unabated rivalry. When
Korehisa died in 1407, Motohisa at once took the fortress of Hirasa, near Ikari-yama, which had
belonged to the former. With this intrusion into central Satsuma, however, Motohisa, the titular
shu-go as he now was of the entire kuni and of Osumi, was the acknowledged ruler only of parts
of south Satsuma and south Osumi, while the late Korehisa's sons Morihisa and Tadatomo, and
Morihisa's son Hisayo, still controlled the greater part of central and north Satsuma, and held do-
mains even in the south.1 The Shibuya also were arrayed on their side, reaping advantage from the
division of their nominal lords. When Motohisa wen to Kyoto in 1410 in order to pay his respects
to the sho-gun Yoshimochi and was absent from Kagoshima between April and September, the
Iriki-in probably had already retaken Kiyoshiki, whose recalcitrant inhabitants had driven away
the Izhuin lord stationed there by Motohisa (see No. 126, n. 1). On his return to Satsuma, Moto-
hisa and his brother Hisatoyo led an expedition to Kiyoshiki in large forces, in 1411, and encamped
at Hoko-no-o, a mile to the north. He was compelled, however, to divide more than 3000 of his
knights and place them in positions to check a possible assault by Tadatomo and Hisayo from
Kuma-no-zho and Ikari-yama. Soon Motohisa was seized by a malady, and, abandoning the cam-
paign and hastening back to Kagoshima, died there, without heir, on 25 August.2 As his powerful
kinsman Izhuin Yorihisa was about o uphold his young son in succession to the deceased shu-go,
the latter's younger brother Hisatoyo forcibly displaced him and assumed the reins at Kagoshima.
On this occasion, Iriki-in Shigenaga probably renewed his homage to Hisayo at Ikari-yama, for the
latter rewarded him with the grant stated in the following document.
"THE entire region of Akune in is, by reason of desire3 at this time, vested
(okonau)4 in you. You shall hold it without interference, unto your children's children.
Therefore, ordered thus.
"O-ei 18 y. 9 m. 15 d. [2 October 1411]. Hyo-e no zho Hisayo, (monogram).
"Kiyoshiki dono."
1 Yamada Sho-Yei zhi-ki. 2 Shimadzu koku-shi, vii, 20, and KK,IV
3 Kokoro-zashi,volition. This word occurs here without the honorific on, as in No.125C, the
absence of which makes it rather uncertain whether the volition referred to was of the writer or
of the recipient of this document.
4 [Ade]-okonau (to assign), on the side of the grantor, creates shiri-okonau, or, chi-gyo (to hold),
on the side of the grantee.