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76.KETO-IN SHIGETOSHI'S LETTER OF SURRENDER, 1333
(Iriki-in docs.; alsoSK, XII, and Dai Ni-hon shi-ryo, VI, i, 280.)
THE wrapper of this document bears the remark: "Concerning the boundary of Ichi-no-no, Kawa-
toko, and Naka Ko-ba, of Keto in, and of Kuro-ki and Naka-tsu-gawa, of Iriki in. (Monogram.)"
From this it seems probable that all the five mura had been in dispute between the two Shibuya
families of Keto-in and Iriki-in, and that, while now the Keto-in by the following letter yielded
to the Iriki-in the first three mura, the latter by another letter, now lost, surrendered its claim to
the last two places. Ichi-no-no, Kawa-toko, and Naka Ko-ba, lay east of Kiyoshiki; Kuro-ki and
Naka-tsu-gawa were some eight miles further north.
"To surrender1
Ichi-no-no, Kawa-toko, and Naka Ko-ba mura, on the border between Keto in
and Iriki in, Satsuma kuni.
"As regards the aforementioned places, Shigetoshi's great grandfather, Shibuya Zhiro-
taro nyu-do Myo-Gyo, on the 25th day of the 12th month of the 3rd year of Sho-an
[24 January 1302], received a decree of the Chin-zei.2 They are, therefore, in [Shige-
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toshi's] actual holding by heredity. Now, although Shibuya Rokuro bo Shidzushige,
now deceased, by an appeal3 [to Kamakura] instituted a litigation, and for many
years the case has been undecided, since it is contrary to his wish to harbor a dispute
within the family, [Shigetoshi] does hereby surrender and deliver for all time to
Shibuya Hei-zhiro Shigekatsu the said mura Ichi-no-no, Kawa-toko, and Naka Ko-ba,
together with the decree2 granted to Myo-Gyo. For future testimony, Shibuya Saemon
no zho Shigemune4 has also affixed his monogram. In order that hereafter there shall
be no disturbance, the letter of surrender is [made] thus.
"Gen-ko 3 y. 11 m. 10 d. [17 December 1333.] Taira no Shigetoshi, (monogram).
Saemon no zho Shigemune,4 (monogram)."
1Sari-watasu, to surrender and deliver. This letter is a sari sho; see No. 43, n. 1.
2A ge-chi of sanction from the sho-gun's deputy at Hakata.
3Yesso, appeal. This may be an appeal to Kamakura.
4Lord of Taki; he should not be confused with Murao Shigemune, mentioned in Nos. 73 and 75;
the "mune" in the two names are written in different characters.