#135
  135.SHIBUYA SHIGENAGA'S RECOGNITION OF HOLDINGS, 1437
                               (Terao docs.; also KK, VIII.)
SHIGENAGA, as the chief of the entire Iriki-in family and its branches, recognized by this letter the
succession of the young Terao Shigetaka to his father's holdings. The tendency had for some time
been toward a greater coherence and more marked hierarchical organization of men of each family,
-a tendency which should be considered along with the gradual development of primogeniture
which was taking place at the same time. Cf. Nos.111 and 119.
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    "[SHIGENAGE] has heard that, as your father Moroshige died in battle when you
were little, you are without a letter of devise concerning Moroshige's domains, and has
also heard hat the letters of succession since Myo-Sho,1 too, have been lost. Since
[Shigenaga] is aware of these facts, [he declares that] wherever the said documents
may be, the domains shall be held (chi-gyo) by Shiro Shigetaka without interference
by others. The details of the ta, hata, and homesteads, are stated in separate papers.
Therefore, as testimony for the future, the statement is [made] thus.
"Ei-kyo 9 y., hinoto mi,2 2 m. 28 d. [3 April 1437].   Shigenaga, (monogram).
  "Mukae Shiro3 dono."




1 Cf. No.109.       2 The 54 th of the sixty-year cycle.
3Terao Shigetaka.