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29.   TERAO SHIGETSUNE'S DEVISE TO HIS WIFE MYO-REN, 1277
                                 (A copy in Terao docs.; also KK, �[.)
           "IN . . .1 's house lives one daughter."
"The domains (sho-ryo) and granted ta (kyu-den)2 which the widow shall prossess
during life:-
   the two domains(ryo) devised to Take-tsuru;
   within Dai-ku-den, of Ise, 2 cho 2/3 tan,3 with the addition of 13/15 tan,4 being the
homestead(yashiki) and ta at Ueda;
Yake-hara, To-no-hara.
"These places, after the widow shall have held(ryo) them for life, shall be held(chi-
gyo) by those to whom they have been assigned in the letters of devise. As testimony
for the future, the autographic proof is [given] thus.
   "Ken-chi 3 y.   m. 13 d. [10 October 1277].                 Jo-Butsu,monogram.
       "[Also], within the moat enclosure at Terao, the land along the road of Notake
   up to north moat, inclusive of the homestead(ya-shiki) that lies eastward on the
   road east of the stables, shall be held for life [by the widow]."




   1 The first word or two are gone.
   2 Kyu-den; rice-land was granted for special service and held during its term. Cf. No. 18, n. 9.
   3 For the sake of brevity, the characters dai(large), han(half), and sho(small), were commonly
used in documents, meaning, respectively, 2/3, 1/2, and 1/3, of a tan, or, 240, 180, and 120 bu.
   4 The original reads: dai and one jo; that is, 2/3 plus 1/5 tan, or 13/15.





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