Because he was an illegitimate son, he had no prospects for adoption and thus spent 15 years--between the ages of 17 and 32--as a heyazumi (an adult-age eldest son who has yet to come into his inheritance), subsisting on Sutebuchi alms, which amounted to a salary of 300 bales of rice.
庶子であったため、養子の口も無く、17歳から32歳までの15年間を300俵の捨扶持の部屋住みとして過ごした。