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   48. NAKAMURA SHIGEYO'S DEVISE OF A LIFE TENURE, 1299
                             (A copy in Okamoto docs.; also KK, VII.)
SHIGEYO was the second son of Shigetsugu, a younger brother of the second lord of Iriki, while
Shigemura who appeared in No. 43 was the third son. The following devise was for life only. Such
devises were usually made for widows or other women; the present devisee, however, is unknown.
           "DOMAINS herewith devised:-
"One place: homestead and ta, hata, and wooded land at Shibuya.
   "The boundaries on the four sides are seen in the original document.
"One place: Kame-ishi and Hanishi-dani mura, in south Zhitcho, Kawae, Mimasaka
kuni.
   "The boundaries on the four sides are seen in the original document.
"One place: six parts, North part, Ono new sho,1, Awa kuni.
   "The boundaries on the four sides are seen in the original letter of dvision.
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"One place: Lower Soeda mura, in Iriki in, Satsuma kuni.
   "The boundaries on the four sides are seen in the original document.
       "You will completely (ikko) control2 the aforesaid place during life.
   After one life, be so good as to grant them under your direction, to Shigeyo's sons.
The arrangement relating to the servitors3 will be the same. Therefore, stated thus.
   "Sho-an 1 y. 8 m. 17 d. [12 September 1299].
                                                                       "Taira no Shigeyo, respectfully, monogram."
"Kindly inform Hitaji dono."4
   "The sho-gun's government wrote at the end of this document the following brief order of
recognition,-an informal procedure which would hardly be followed if the devise was not, as in
this instance, that of a younger branch of a family and withal temporary. Probably Shigeyo lived
on till this time, and hence the long interval between the devise and the recognition.
"It is hereby decreed, by command, that [the devisee] shall hold (ryo-sho) [the
places], according to this letter.
   "Gen-o 2 y. 12 m. 20 d. [19 January 1321].   Sagami no kami,5 monogram.
                                                                                 "Former Mutsu no kami,6 monogram."




   1Ono sho, on the lower Naka river, in Awa, on the east coast of the island Shi-koku, belonged
already in 1159 to the Buddhist chapel Ho-sho-gon in, in Kyoto, with Fujiwara no Sueyuki as
ryo-ke, yielding 256 koku of rice and 4 koku of vegetable oil to the in, (a To zhi doc.; in Awa no
kuni cho-ko zassho, 334-337). Since the chapel had been recently, in 1132, built for the spiritual
welfare of the imperial house (Hyaku-ren sho, vii), this sho probably had an imperial personage
as its domanial lord; then the great Buddhist church To zhi, of Kyoto, seems to have acquired a
superior right of the sho. Later its ryo-ke shiki passed into the hands of the premier Fujiwara no
Michi-ie (1193-1252), when a new sho probably around Tatsue, had developed. He devised
revenues from the original and new sho, in his well-known will dated 1250, to different persons, (see
the will in the To-fuku- zhi mon-zho, I). Of the revenues of the new sho, a part was in 1270 given
by its devisee to the monastery in Kyoto, To-fuku zhi, (ibid., II), followed, in 1271, by the gift
of a revenue of the original sho as well, (see the document dated O-an 1 y. intercalary 6 m.; ibid.).
From the present document and No. 60, we know that, in 1299, the ji-to shiki of a part of the
"new" sho had passed into the possession of the Shibuya, though we cannot find out when and how.
This divided shiki, or perhaps another part of the same shiki, came under the control of the Okamoto
branch of the Iriki-in family, and, after 1322,was further split among children (No. 60). It is
unknown how long the Okamoto continued to hold the shiki in Ono new sho. In 1380, the ji-to
shiki of the same "new" sho, called in this instance "North part, Tatsue sho," which had apparently
been seized by the provincial shu-go, was granted by the latter to a vassal, (Awa no kuni cho-ko
zassho, 130).
   In the meantime, the hon-ke shiki, probably in part, had been given at some time by Ho-sho-gon
in to the church To zhi, of kyoto, and in the fourteenth century, likewise forcibly taken by the
shu-go, (ibid., 340-341). There is little doubt that the shu-go had appropriated the general territory,
and that in his hands the distinction between the various shiki of the sho, between the "original"
(hon) and "new" (shin) sho, and indeed between the whole sho and its neighboring regions, was
obliterated, all forming a part of his greater dominion. The history of Ono sho is thus typical of the
normal career of many a sho in Japan.
   2Shin-tai; see No. 16, n. 15.   3Ge-nin.
   4Who Hitaji dono was is unknown.   5Hojo Takatoki, the Regent.
   6Probably Kanazawa Sada-aki.




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