#85
  85. HATAKEYAMA YOSHIAKI'S TRANSMISSION OF ORDER TO
                  TERAO SHIGENA, 1338
          (Terao docs.; also KK, VIII; SK, XV; and Dai Ni-hon shi-ryo, VI, iv, 888.)
DURING 1337 and 1338, war was waged in all the three kuni: in Satsuma, an undecisive but none
the less fierce fighting ragead for months after late August 1337 about Ichiku; in Osumi, the struggle
was again centered, in the second quarter of 1338, about the provincial capital; and in Hiuga,
Mimata in continued to be the cheif scene of battle. The commanding generals on the Northern
side at these battles were: the Shimadzu lords, in Satsuma; the deputy shu-go and the Nezhime,
in Osumi; and Hatakeyama Yoshiaki, in Hiuga.
   The extant documents are too meager to aid us in determining the extent of the Shibuya war-
riors' participation in these battles. It is rather doubtful that they were active at Ichiku; it is cer-
tain that, though Togo was disturbed by the rival forces, Iriki was tranquil. (Dai Ni-hon shi-ryo,
VI,iv 309-323.) At Osumi, on the contrary, a Keto-in was a leading warrior on the Southern side,
a single champion of the entire Shibuya stock in that year to support the imperial cause. (From
the Shigeuji records, in SK, XV; also Dai Ni-hon shi-ryo, VI, iv, 446.) It is to the cheif field of
battle in Hiuga that Yoshiaki addressed the following letter of summons to Terao Shigena. Identical
orders were probably issued to other Shibuya lords.
  Mimata in was the cradle of the original Shimadzu sho; it now comprised Taka-zho, commanded
by Kimotsuki Kaneshige, and the fortress of O-wada or O-iwada, under his supporter Hirayama.
Yoshiaki was concentrating his whole effort to the reduction of this strategic territory. (Life of
Kaneshige, quoted in SK, XV; also Dai Ni-hon shi-ryo, VI, iv, 889. ) Concerning Yoshiaki and
Kaneshige, see the preface to No. 84.
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     "As we were starting for Mimata in, in order to vanquish Kaneshige and other
rebels, we heard that the enemy in Satsuma might encircle our rear, and for that reason
an order [by Takauji] has recently been issued. You shall at once hasten to the fort-
ress [of the enemy] and render loyal service. [The command] is transmitted thus.
  "Ken-mu 5 y. intercalary 7 m. 2 d. [16 September 1338].
                                  Minamoto, (Hatakeyama Yoashiaki's monogram).
"Shibuya Iya-shiro dono. "1


1Terao Shigena.