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   105. SHIBUYA SHIGEKATSU'S DEVISE TO MASASHIGE, 1355

                        (Iriki-in does.; also kk, II.)
Cf. No. 97. By the following letter of devise, Shigekatsu devised permanently a part of the south
part of Kiyoshiki to his grandson Ko-goro Masashige. The original document makes a very difficult
reading.
"THE letter of devise to Ko-goro.
    "The various domains in the estate of the grandfather1 Muneshige which are in
the south part of Kiyoshiki myo, Iriki in, Satsuma kuni, have been wholly devised to
Hei-goro Shigetsugu.2 However, while the heir-general3 ['s domain] in this in is known 
as Kiyoshiki go, the homestead(zai-ka) of Iya-to-shiro nyu-do at the original mura
in the south part is [also] called Kiyoshiki. While this mura [thus] bears the name
of the heir-general3 ['s domain], the little sono above Iya-to-shiro nyu-do's resident
homestead [ya-shiki], on both sides of the road at the entrance to the ferry of Soeda;
the hata, bounded directly by the edge of Do-Gaku's grant in the south, and diago-
nally by the river up-stream, where a shrine stands on a built mound, and bounded by
the river along the upper bank and directly by the little sono from the path up the hill;
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and the following ta: 1 tan 2 jo of cultivated4 ta, Ya-waki hill, in Mae-da, Kiyoshiki;
and 3 tan of ta, called Made-no, east of the river and up and down at the beginning
of the road to the left of Ya-waki hill,-besides these, there are hills and plains
[belonging to] the south part,-the aforesaid are Shigekatsu's hereditary domains.
Since this region is the heir-general3 ['s domain, the aforementioned places] separated
from the south part are devised for all time to the son5 Masashige. As proof for the
future, the letter of devise is [written] thus.
  "Bunna 4 y., kinoto hitsuzhi,6 4 m. 8 d. [20 May 1355].
                                    Minono kami7 Shigekatsu, (monogram)."




  1Father of the deviser's adopted mother Gen-Shin.
  2Younger brother of the deviser, adopted as son; identical with Tora-ichi Maru in No.97.
  3So-ryo in the sense explained in No. 64, n. 1. Referring to No. 97, it will be seen that Shige-
katsu gave in 1349 the north part of Kiyoshiki to his heir-general Toramatsu-Maru, i. e., Shigekado.
  4A character which appears to be saku, i, e., opened to cultivation.
  5Really son of shigeksuku.                      6The 32nd in the sexagenary cycle. 
  7Literally, the (civil) governor of the kuni of Mino; really, a purely honorary title. It was
probably granted by the southern Court to Shigekatsu for his service in war. Likewise, the title
Saemon no zho borne by Shigeoki (Nos. 103, 106, etc.) was originally an office connected with an
imperial guard at Kyoto, but had become honorary; it also had been granted him probably for the
same reason.