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   75. CONFIRMATIONS BY THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT, 1333

         (Iriki-in, Okamoto, and Terao docs.; also KK, II, VII; SK, XII; and
                                 Dai Ni-hon shi-ryo, VI, i, 277.)
FOLLOWING its decree of August that the domains held by all persons who had not aided the cause
of the late regent would not be interfered with (Dai Ni-hon shi-ryo, VI, i, 145),the imperial gov-
ernment granted to members of the Shibuya family the following letters of confirmation (an-do).
As these documents are all worded the same and bear the same date and signature, only the first
document is given intact.
  These are examples of that less formal style of imperial orders known as rin-shi. When a rin-shi
was addressed to a high personage, its ending was couched in a more polite sentence.

    "THE land in actual holding1 of Shibuya Shin-hei-zhi nyu-do Jo-Yen2 shall not
be disturbed. The Imperial pleasure is hereby conveyed.
  "Gen-ko 3 y. 11 m. 9 d. [16 December 1333]. Shiki-bu dai-zho,3 (monogram)."

  Identical letters were addressed to "Shibuya Hei-zhi-goro Shigekatsu," who was the fifth lord
of Iriki; to "Shibuya Kuro Norishige," the author of the petition already quoted (No. 74); to
"So-Shun, the widow of Shibuya Hei-zo Shigemune";4 to "Taira uji me Tora-san," daughter of
Terao Shigeuji; and to "Shum-A, the widow of Shibuya Iya-saburo nyn-do," that is Terao Shigemi.




  1To-chi-gyo chi, land in actual holding.      2This is Shigemoto, the fourth lord of the Iriki-in.
  3One who bore the official title dai-zho in the shiki-bu department. He transmits the imperial
decree. 
  4Murao Shigemune; see No. 73.