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                                                   36. ACCUSATION OF YO-ICHI, 1278
                                                             (A copy in Terao docs.; also KK, Ⅷ.)
THE first part of the following charge against Terao Yo-ichi Shigekazu (later called tameshige) is
lost, but it plainly was persented to the sho-gun's government by the late Terao Shigetsune's widow
Myo-Ren and his chief heir Shigemichi. Another accusation had evidently been made by the same
parties.
   ^{"* * *} WE have heard that, when ships carrying the domanial lord's rice from
To-no-hara, in (Iriki) in, arrived at Katagami, of Bizen kuni, Shigekazu, hearing of
it, sent his servitors¹ thither, and robbed more than twenty kwan [in value] of things
borne by the agent. That was a surprising act. It is evident that [Shigekzu] wilfully
invaded [his father's] old domain²(i-ryo and committed such outrage, because he had
been repudiatedand was poor. Why should he not, for the sake of society and of
[^{* * *}],³ be chastized? Moreover, it is said that, in the midst of the agricultual
season, he tormented the inhabitants⁴ so much [with exaction] that they could not
peacefully stay on their lands; etc. For both public and ariviable reasons, he should
surely be dealt with. To conclude: details [of his wrongdoings] have already been pre-
sented, and it is now once more respectfully petitioned that at once the deputy of the
shu-go be ordered to forward the aforesaid Shigekazu to the Kwanto, and that the  
things that he seized be restored and he be punishied.
   "Ko-an 1 y. 5 m, 18 d. [9 June 1278]."
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   ¹ Ge-nin.
   ² This act of intrusion may have been described in the missing part of this document or in another
document altogether lost.
   ³ One word omitted carelessly in the original copy.
   ⁴ Do-min.