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#42 42. SHIBUYA ARISHIGE'S WILL, 12801 (Iriki-in docs.; also KK, II.) THE devisor Arishige was the fourth son of Arishige, the second lord of Iriki-in. The latter was suc- ceeded by Kimishige, the eldest son, whose heir was Shigemoto, the devisee of this document. Shigemoto, therefore, on succeeding to his father, united in his possession the domains of his father and uncle. See the genealogical table of the family. "To devise domains To Hatsu-do-Maru.2 "One place: one [house, namely] Seita nyu-do's western house, in Shibuya, of Yo- shida Upper sho, Sagami kuni. Also, 5 cho of wooded land in Fuji-gokoro, of the same place. The boundaries on the four sides are stated in the original document.3 "One place: westward of the Kami-yama temple, at Shimo-mori, in Kwae go, Mima- saka kuni. The boundaries on the four sides are stated in the original document.3 "One place: three-fifths of the north part of Kiyoshiki go, in Iriki in, Satsuma kuni. "The aforesaid places are Sho-Zen's6 hereditary possessions. Since he has special thought of Hatsu-do-Maru, though he is a nephew,4 [the aforesaid places] are, to- gether with the orders [of investiture] and [the documents of] successive transmis- sion, devised to him for all time. As for the various obligations,5 they should be ren- dered according to precedents. Devised thus. "Ko-an 3 y. 5 m.8 d.[6 June 1280]. Shami Sho-Zen,6 (monogram)."
1Cf. No. 24 A. 2The boyhood name of Shibuya Shigemoto, the fourth lord of the Iriki-in. 3By the original document is meant an earlier letter of devise with which the hereditary succes- sion of this same estate began, and the which the boundaries were fully set forth. To this, the later devises, so long as they covered the identical estate, would be considered in the light of appendices. In the present instance, the devise drawn up in No. 24 A above is probably the "original document," hon sho-mon. 4That is, not a son. 5ku-zhi, obligations, in this example, owed to the sho-gun by the holder as a go ke-nin. See No. 13, nn. 7a and 12. 6Sho-Zen was the Buddhist name of Arishige. He fell in battle the following year at the invasion of the Mongols.


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