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        71. THE SHO-GUN'S DECREES OF INVESTITURE, 1329
                    (Copies in Terao docs.; also KK, VIII, and SK, XI.)
AT length the contention relative to the estate of Koreshige, which had divided the Terao family
against itself for many a year, was settled, apparently as intestate, by the sho-gun's count; and the
feudal government granted to members of the family the following decrees signed by the regent
(shikken), Hojo(Akabashi) Moritoki, investing them with their respective shares of the estate. The
eight letters that remain are probably all that were issued, for their recipients comprise Koreshige's
widow and four sons and three grandchildren.
  However, from these decrees, it is seen that a separate document setting forth the details of the
individual shares was also issued; unfortunately, it has not been preserved.
  The decrees are ge-chi (cf. No. 25, n. 6). They are all identical excepting the first indented lines
that form the heading, in which the individual holdings are set forth. The first letter is given below
in its entirety, and the others are here cited only by their headings. The whole documents may
readily  be restored by repeating after the headings of the other documents the same text, date, and
signature as those of the first, merely changing the words "her" and "she" to "his" and "he," and
"husband" to "father" or "grandfather," as the case may be.
   It will be observed that the eldest son, Shigehiro, received the largest share; that his son, Betto-
zhiro-Maru, and the younger brother by the main wife of Koreshige, Shigena, received equivalent
lots, while the widowed mother was honored almost equally; and that to the younger sons and
more distant, youthful relatives fell smaller, graded portions.




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                      A.DECREE FOR THE WIDOW MYO-CHI
      "That forthwith the nun Myo-chi shall hold two cho five tan of ta and five
    houses at To-no-hara Go,in Iriki in, Satsuma kuni. *The details are seen in the
    letter of division. *
"The above is apportioned from the estate left by her late husband Shibuya Mago-
saburo Koreshige. She shall forthwith, in accordance with precedents, hold [the same].
By order [of the sho-gun], it is decreed thus.
 "Gen-toku 1 y. 10 m. 20 d. [11 Nov. 1329].          Sagami no kumi, Taira no Ason."

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                      B.DECREE FOR SHIGEHIRO
      "That forthwith Taira no Shigehiro shall hold four tan of ta and two houses in
    Terao mura , Shibuya sho, Sagami kuni, and six cho of ta and twelve houses at
    To-no-harago, in Iriki in, Satsuma kuni. *The details are seen in the letter of
    division. *
"...................................................."




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                  C.DECREE FOR BETTO-ZHIRO-MARU
      "That forthwith Betto-zhiro-Maru shall hold two cho nine tan of ta and-1
    houses at To-no-hara go, in Iriki in, Satsuma kuni. *The details are seen in the
    letter of division. *
"...................................................."



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                         D.DECREE FOR SHIGENA
      "That forthwith Taira no Shigena shall hold two cho nine tan of ta and nine
    houses at To-no-hara go, in Iriki in, Satsuma kuni. *The details are seen in the
    letter of division. *
"...................................................."



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                       E. DECREE FOR UCHISHIGE
      "That forthwith Taira no Uchishige shall hold one cho eight tan of ta and 
    three houses at To-no-hara go, in Iriki in, Satsuma kuni. *The details are seen 
    in the letter of division. *
"...................................................."



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                         F. DECREE FOR SHIGEMI
      "That forthwith Taira no Shigemi shall hold one cho of ta and two houses at
    To-no-hara go, in Iriki in, Satsuma kuni. *The details are seen in the letter of
    division. *
"...................................................."



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                   G. DECREE FOR TSURU-WO-MARU
      "That forthwith Tsuru-wo-Maru2 shall hold five and one half tan of ta and
    one house at To-no-hara go, in Iriki in, Satsuma kuni. *The details are seen in the
    letter of division. *
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                     H. DECREE FOR A GRANDDAUGHTER
      "That forthwith Taira uji,aza-na3 shall hold three tan of ta and one house
    at To-no-hara go, in Iriki in, Satsuma kuni. *The details are seen in the letter of
    division. *
"...................................................."





   *   *These sentences here enclosed between asterisks are written in small characters in the origi-
nal decrees.
   1The number is wanting in the original copy; probably nine.
   2Probably Take-tsuru's son.                   3Whose daughter? The name (aza-na) is wanting.




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