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#131
                          131.IZHUIN YORIHISA'S GRANTS, 1417
                                 (Iriki-in docs; also KK,IV.)
THE following grants were made to Iriki-in Shigenaga by the rebel Izhuin Yorihisa, whose design
to make his son succeed Motohisa had been frustrated by Hisatoyo (No. 130). Yorihisa was of the
Shimadzu blood, and sufficiently strong to oust the new shu-go for a time from Kagoshima in 1413,
and four years later to wrest from him a consent to yield to him the large domains of Taniyama
 kori and Kiire in.1 Immediately he offered to Iriki-in 
Shigenaga a part of the same Taniyama, be-
sides parts of Mitsue in,north of Kagoshima. It is doubtful that Shigenaga had already or would 
now cast his lot with the rebel. Nor could the grants have been of value to Shigenaga, for not only
were they invalid gifts made by a usurper, but also Yorihisa himself was soon driven out of Tani-
yama. As for the grants in Mitsue in, they were near, if not within the hereditary domain of the
Hishi-zhima family; and bestowal of them by another was probably an empty act.
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    "[Do-O]3 respectfully vests(ade-okonau)2 in you Naka-mata and Nishi-mata, in
Mitsue in, and Yamada mura,in Taniyama kori,,Satsuma kuni. *A detailed statement
of the tsubo is on another sheet.* Therefore, you shall hold(chi-gyo)2 [the said
places] without interference, in accordance with precedents. Stated thus.
  "O-ei 24 y. 9 m. 20 d. [29 October 1417].          Do-O,3 (monogram).
"Kiyoshiki4 dono."




*   * In small characters in the original text.
1 Cf.No.126.                                2 See No. 130, n. 4.
3 The Buddhist name of Izhuin Yorihisa.       4 Iriki-in Shigenaga.