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                    14. WILL OF SHIBUYA JO-SHIN, 1246¹ 
                    (A copy in Iriki-in docs.; also KK, VIII, and SK, III.)
[ON the reserve side of right edge]:

  "The houses, ta and hata, at * * *² by grandfather have been wholly devised to Shigetsune.
    "Ho-ji 3y. 1m. 10d. [23 February 1249]. Monogram."³

"Devise of homesteads and documents
    To Shiro Shigetsune.⁴
"One place: Terao⁵ mura, in Yoshida upper sho,⁵ in Sagami kuni.

  "Boundaries:⁶ Eastern limit: bounded by the mound newly made in the middle of the plain, and
      Kogita road at the same place[?]; also bounded by the balks of the rice-fields[?];
    Southern limit: old boundary road;
    Western limit: Hoso-oji;
    Northern limit: lane by the embankment before Hironari.

"One place: Dai-ku-den, at Mita, in Ise kuni.

  "This is cultivated ta having no boundaries.
  "Of these [ta], the one cho granted to Oto go-zen⁷ has been excepted.

"One place: north of the river, of Zhitcho⁸ mura, in Kawae go, in Mimasaka kuni.

  "Boundaries:⁶ Eastern limit: the stream from right of Mt. Nerikane;
    Southern limit: the same stream;
    Western limit: Shirahashi hill, Nakayasu, Oiwase;
    Northern limit: the Emi boundary.

  "The ta [burdened] with obligations: four cho three tan.
  "The aforesaid places shall, according to precedents, be controlled⁹ and held¹⁰ [by
Shigetsune]. Devised thus.
    "Kwan-gen 4y. 3m. 29d. [16 April 1246]. Priest, [Jo-Shin's] monogram."³




  ¹ The sho-gun's government granted a letter of recognition in 1255, sanctioning this will and the
subsequent will of 1251. See No.21.
  ² Three characters miscopied and unintelligible, the first two of which would seem to be Uchi-
mojiri.
  ³ In copies, monograms are usually not written, but their presence in the original is indicated in
the copies by the word ari han; i.e., "[here] is the monogram." In our translations of copies, this
word is rendered as monogram in italics without brackets. Here the monogram must be Jo-Shin's.
  ⁴ The first of the Terao branch, deriving that name from the mura mentioned in the text.
  ⁵ That Shibuya sho in Takakura kori, Sagami kuni, was the chief domain of the Shibuya family
has been explained in the Introduction. Terao, mentioned here, from which Shigetsune's descendants
derived their family-name, is north of Fukaya, Ochiai, and Uchi-mojiri which appear in No.13 and
other Iriki-in documents. These places were all situated within this extensive sho, as was probably
also Fujigokoro. There occurs in the Adzuma-kagami an important document deted 1193, quoted
below, regarding Yoshida sho, of which the Shibuya are stated to have been ji-to. Since Yoshida
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lies in Kamakura kori east of Shibuya, near the modern town of Todzuka, scholars have been
puzzled as to whether Shibuya sho in 1193 extended over both kori (see Shin-pen Sagami fu-do ki,
xcix, 34; Yoshida Togo's Dai Ni-hon chi-mei zhi-sho, 2704), but the present document would lead
us to infer that, in the early Kamakura period, Shibuya in Takakura kori constituted the upper
part of Yoshida sho, whose domanial lord was the Buddhist house En-man in, of the great
monastery On-zho zhi, at Mii, Omi, and which was indifferently called Shibuya sho or Yoshida sho;
that is, Yoshida upper sho was not in Kamakura kori, for Terao, which is in Shibuya, is mentioned
as comprised in it. On the other hand, Yoshida go in Yama-no-uchi sho in which En-gaku zhi of
Kamakura held a domain from the latter half of the thirteenth century (Shin-pen Sagami, etc., lxxix,
4 and 6) may be presumed to be Yoshida proper, in Kamakura kori; whether this Yoshida once
formed a part of a Yoshida lower sho is unknown.
  The passage in the Adzuma-kagami referred to avobe (xi,-Kikkawa text, I, 405-406) reads as
follows:
  "[Ken-kyu 3y. 12m. 20d. (24 January 1193).] Since men of the Shibuya [family] were singu-
larly brave, and so were favorably considered [by the sho-gun], he, in order that they be rewarded
for their performance of obligations(ku-zhi), obtained for them from En-man in,^a the ryo-ke, an
uke-sho^b of the ji-to [shiki] of Yoshida sho, Sagami kuni, which they were holding, and rendered
the taxes [due from the uke-sho] from the contents of his own treasury.
  "The man-dokoro of the house of the former U dai-sho [issues] this invoice of the annual taxes
  now transported in behalf of Yoshida sho, Sagami kuni.
    "'[Taxes] commuted in cloth, 674 tan 2 jo,
        inclusive of 61 tan for the earlier due;
    cloth, 267 tan.
  "'Dyed clothes(some-ginu), 5 pieces,-commuted to 100 mon, at 20 mon [each];
  hachi-jo silk of good quality, 6 pieces,-commuted to 120 mon, at 20 mon [each]
                              7 tan, good, 
    fine cloth, 9 tan:                    -commuted to[?];
                              2 tan, medium,
    [dues] commuted to indigo-printed cloth, 30 tan,-commuted to 60 mon;
    indigo cloth, 2 tan, without pattern,-commuted to 4 mon;
    sotsu-da[?],-commuted to 40 mon;
    carriers, 7 men,-commuted to 52 tan 2 jo;
    regularly presented naga-awabi[?], 1150 jo;
    utsushi-bana[paper?], 15 sheets;
    dyed leather, 20 sheets.
      "'The foregoing are herewith transported by Sukehiro, chief of laborers.
      "'Ken-kyu 3y. 12m. 20d. [24 January 1193].          Taira, monogram.'"
  There is a district called Shibuya also in the neighboring kuni of Musashi, where lived members
of the same family; see No.27, n.6. In some genealogies of the Shibuya family, the places in the
two kuni are confused.
  ⁶ The accuracy of the version of the proper names in the boundaries cannot be vouched for.
  ⁷ Jo-Shin's daughter.
  ⁸ See No.13, n.8.
  ⁹ Sa-da.
  ¹⁰ Chi-gyo.
          ^a En-man in, a Buddhist house attached to On-zho zhi, or, Mii dera, Omi. See Zoku
        Gun-zo rui-zhu, IV, 96.
          ^b An uke-sho meant a place the taxes of which were farmed out; see No.22.