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                   77. IMPERIAL CONFIRMATIONS, 1334

THE name of the person to whom the first of the following documents was addressed is lacking,
but may be inferred from No. 79 below. Moreover, it will be seen, by referring to No. 48, that the
domains enumerated in document A, are those of the Nakamura branch of the Shibuya family.
  The orders emanated from a new judicial office of the imperial government called the Zasso
ketsu-dan sho, "office for the deciding of miscellaneous petitions." This bureau, together with the
revived Ki-roku zho, "record (-examining) office," endeavored to receive and pass upon the numer-
ous petitions for adjudication of claims of all kinds which were pouring into the count. The business
of the two offices was organized and executed with tolerable efficiency, but their work was con-
tinually frustrated by private acts of favoritism which were committed with singular lack of fore-
thought in the inner palace. The resulting confusion and discontent were largely responsible for the
speedy failure that overtook the imperial autocracy restored by Go-Daigo in 1333.




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                                      A
        (Okamoto docs.; also KK, VII, SK, XII, and Dai Ni-hon shi-ryo, VI, i, 608.)
"The Zasso ketsu-dan sho ['s communication to * * * ]
    "Regarding the Kitao homestead, ta, hata, houses, and woodland, in upper Fu-
    kaya mura, Yoshida Upper sho, Sagami kuni; ta, hata, and houses, at Hanishi-
    dani mura, in Zhitcho South mura, Kawae sho, Mimasaka kuni; and ta, hata,
    and houses, at Soeda mura, in middle mura, Iriki in, Satsuma kuni.
"[It is decreed that his] actual holding of the above-mentioned [places] shall not be
disturbed. [We do] hereby communicate.
  "Ken-mu 1 y. 6 m. 3 d. [4 July 1334].
                                     Sho han-zhi, Nakahara no Ason,(monogram).
"Sa chu-ben, Fujiwara no Ason (monogram)."




#77-B
                                      B
            (Okamoto docs.; also KK, VII, and Dai Ni-hon shi ryo, VI, ii, 28.)
"The Zasso ketsu-dan sho's communication to Taira uji me aza-na Tora-San's places,
    "Regarding one cho of Shiki-den, in Hirano mura, Mimasaka kuni.
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"Communication: [it is decreed that her] actual holding shall not be disturbed. It is
communicated thus. [We do] hereby communicate.
  "Ken-mu 1 y. 10 m. 18 d. [15 Nov. 1334]. U dai-shi, Abe (monogram).

Sho 2nd rank, Fujiwara no Ason (mono-    Sho han-zhi, also Saemon no sho zho, Nakahara
                                             gram).                            no Ason, (monogram).
Sho 2nd rank, Fujiwara no Ason (mono-    Former kami of Tango, Oe no Ason
                                             gram)                                  (monogram)
Zhu 3rd rank, Taira no Ason    (mono-    Doctor of law, also Uemon dai zho, Nakahara
                                             gram)                       no Ason, (monogram).
Gon dai-bu of the Shiki-bu, Fujiwara no          U chu-ben, Fujiwara no Ason, (mono-
                             Ason, (monogram).                                                     gram)."