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     81. JUDICAL ORDER IN FAVOR OF TORA-SAN, 13351

    (A copy in Okamoto docs.; also KK,VII; SK, XII; and Dai Ni-hon shi-ryo, VI, ii, 401.)
"THE Zasso ketsu-dan sho's communication to the office of Mimasaka kuni
  "Regarding Shiro Saemon no zho's interference with the one cho of Shiki-den, in
    Hirano mura, in Hayashino ho,2 of this kuni, reported by Taira uji me, ji-to of a
    part of this mura. *The petition and the muniments [are sent] herewith.*
"Communication: [it is decreed that] if the petition is not mistaken, the interference
shall be stopped and [her] possession be secured; and that if there be [special] cir-
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cumstances, they shall be reported. It is communicated thus. [We do] hereby com-
municate.
   "Ken-mu 2 y. 5 m. 7 d. [29 May 1335].              Sa hyo-e no zho, Minamoto.
"Azechi, Fujiwara no Ason, (monogram).  U dai-shi, Abe, (monogram).
"Sho 2nd rank, Fujiwara no Ason, (mono- Saemon sho-zho, Den-shi [?] no Sukune,
                                               gram).                 (monogram).
"Zhu 2nd rank, Fujiwara no Ason, (mono- U e mon sho-zho, Nakahara no Ason,
                                               gram).                 (monogram).
                                                      U chu-ben, Fujiwara no Ason, (mono-gram)."




  1Cf. No. 77B.
  2Ho. It would be needless to discuss the nature and the history of this important and difficult
institution. Let it suffice to say that ho were territorial divisions of  obscure origin and varied
extent that had gradually, though not quite as slowly as the go, lost their character as public ad-
ministrative areas and become more or less assimilated with the privately controlled sho.
  *     *Written small in the original.