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Basic research for the methodical comprehension of the agrarian product figures during the middle ages and early modern times in Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number 09410094
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Japanese history
Research InstitutionKumamoto University

Principal Investigator

KUDO Keiichi  Kumamoto University, Fac.of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (50040473)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) MATSUMOTO Sumio  Kumamoto Industry University, Fac.of Engineering, Professor, 工学部, 教授 (40094049)
HARUTA Naoki  Kumamoto University, Fac.of Education, Lecturer, 教育学部, 助教授 (80295112)
YAMADA Masahiko  Kumamoto University, Fac.of Letters, Associate-Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (90202382)
OBATA Hiromi  Kumamoto University, Fac.of Letters, Associate-Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (80274679)
YOSHIMURA Toyoo  Kumamoto University, Fac.of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (90182823)
Project Period (FY) 1997 – 1998
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1998)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,700,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥3,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000)
Keywordspublic paddy estate / land register so-called ootabumi / cadastal survey's documents / money-estimated tax system / rice-yield-estimated tax system / monetary levies per land unit / farming out (contract) / public corvee / 貫高 / 石高
Research Abstract

This coordinated study aimed to explain the meaning of figures registered in several land cadasters through the 10th--16th centuries in Japan. For this purpose we particularly treated of the discrepancy between real functioning paddy-fields and registered ones, and pursued the changes from a register to the others as chronologically as possible. To some extent, this research also contribute to the institutional history of pre-modern Japan. The following are our results of this research.
1) In all the cadaster-documents from "Wamyousho" to "Ootabumi", the figures of "ta (den)" mentioned in each provincial register seem essentially related with the contracted parts based on the older fundamental national tax register, that each provincial governors ("kokushi") farmed out.
2) In the document of "Ootabumi", figures are indicated in detail with "tan" or "bu" in the case of the public estates ("kokuryo") while in the private ones ("shoen") was used an approximate numeration, omitting the figur … More e below ten "cho".
3) In Kyushu, we find the more approximate indication system only making the unit of hundred "cho". This type is applied to the estates distant from the provincial government center ("kokuga"), and very often to the royal estates ("oukeryo-gunmeisho"). The Latter seems particularly constructed with some political purposes.
4) Confronted with the fixed figures of "Ootabumi", the local resident proprietors ("zaichi-ryoushu") began to conduct the new cadastral surveys to increase his tax-revenue at the late middle ages. While the money ("zeni") was in wide currency at the same time, the regional governors ("shugo") began to levy the monetary surtaxes per land unit and the local proprietors soon also applied this system as their supplementary income source. Thus the money-estimated tax system ("kandakasei") appears in our historical scene. But this doesn't last much longer because of the increase of imitated money and the fault of money credit. As a result of this aspect, the tax calculated in terms of rice yield, traditional tax system, is reconstructed. It was in this time arranged to have a new standard through the full-scale cadastral surveys by the lords who unified this nation (the formation of "kokudakasei").
5) Nevertheless the discrepancy between the real production and the standard tax may be soon formed. "Kokudaka" thus was a sort of representative, symbolic and public numeration of many things, for example, volume of levies ("shuushu"), degree of fief ("chigyou") and social rank ("kakushiki"), and became detached from the real production and taxable reality.
6) About this period some non-agrarian levies ("shuushu") were also organized by the local resident lord. Interestingly their quantity was approximately defined in connection with the scale of "kokudaka". But the most important element among the non-agrarian levies was public corvee ("kuji") that was not always linked to the land system. Less

Report

(3 results)
  • 1998 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1997 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (50 results)

All Other

All Publications (50 results)

  • [Publications] 工藤敬一: "肥後国玉名郡の荘園公領と在地領主" 文学部論叢(熊本大学). 61. 1-38 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 伊藤正彦: "元末-地方政治改革案-明初地方政治改革の先駆-" 東洋史研究. 56-1. 97-126 (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 伊藤正彦: "中国史研究の『地域社会論』-方法的特質と意義-" 歴史評論. 582. 18-29 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 小畑弘己: "大型銭の流通" わが国における銭貨生産-出土銭貨研究会第4回大会報告要旨-. 58-63 (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 小畑弘己: "清銭の流入と流通" 博多研究会誌. 5. 19-37 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 春田直紀: "大阪府漁業史" 大阪府漁業史編さん協議会. 97-109 (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 春田直紀: "『日本のはじまり』をめぐって" 歴史評論. 584. 36-50 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 山田雅彦: "中世中期における市場と権力-12世紀フランドル伯領を中心に-" 社会経済史学. 63-2. 32-56 (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 山田雅彦: "安全護送権と封建制の定立-12世紀フランス王領における王権と領主権-" 文学部論叢(熊本大学). 65. (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 吉村豊雄: "初期大名家における隠居体制と藩主権力" 文学部論叢(熊本大学). 61. 39-67 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 吉村豊雄: "近世初期地方知行制と知行割替" 日本史研究. 429. 1-31 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 松本寿三郎: "山鹿郡之内南島与人畜家数御帳" 熊本史学. 74・75合併号. 53-109 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 足立啓二: "専制国家史論-中国史から世界史へ-" 柏書房, 282 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 松本寿三郎(編): "菊鹿町検地帳集(二)" 菊鹿町教育委員会(熊本県鹿本郡菊鹿町), 317 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KUDO,Keiichi: "An Essay on Shoen-Kouryo (Public Estates) and Lords in Tamana-Gun in Higo-no-Kuni" Kumamoto Journal of Culture and Humanities. No.61. 1-38 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] ITOH,Masahiko: "A Reform Plan of Area Politics and Local Administration at the End of the Yuan Era" The Journal of Oriental Researches. Vol.56, No.1. 97-126 (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] ITOH,Masahiko: ""Regional Society" in Researches of Chinese History : Methodical Characters and its Significance." Historical Review. No.582. 18-29 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] OBATA,Hiromi: "Re-examination on Inflow and Circulation of Copper Coin Issued by Qing Dynasty at the Period of National Isolation in Japan" Journal of the Study of Hakata Sites. No, 5. 19-37 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] OBATA,Hiromi: "The Study on Circulation of Big Copper Coin of Song Dynasty in Japan" Proceedings of Society for Study of Excavated Coin, No.4 (Researches on Some Problems of Manufacture of Copper Coin in Japan). 58-63 (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] HARUTA,Naoki: "On the "Origins of Japan"" Historical Review. No.584. 36-50 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] YAMADA,Masahiko: "Market and Feudal Powers in the Classical Middle Ages : A Case of the County of Flandres in the 12th Century" Socio-Economic History. Vol.63, No.2. 32-56 (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] YAMADA,Masahiko: "The Part of Safe-Conduct in the Consolidation of Feudal States : On the Royal Authority and the Local Lordship in French Royal Domein" Kumamoto Journal of Culture and Humanities. No.65. 51-80 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] YOSHIMURA,Toyoo: "The Relationship between the Inkyo System and the Daimyo's Power in Hosokawa-Han" Kumamoto Journal of Culture and Humanities. No.61. 39-67 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] YOSHIMURA,Toyoo: "Local Chigyo (Fief) System and Change of Chigyo in the Early Modern Times" Journal of Japan History. No.429. 1-31 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] MATSUMOTO,Sumio: ""Ninchiku-iekazu-onchou" (Cadastral Register of Domanial Goods of Estates) of Minamijima Gumi in Yamaga-Gun)" Kumamoto Historical Review. No.74/75. 53-109 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] ADACHI,Keiji: Historical Approach to the Despotic States : From the Chinese History to the World History. Kashiwa-Shobo, 282 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] HARUTA,Naoki & al.: General History of the Fishery in Osaka District. Commitee of the Publication of General History of Fishery in Osaka District, 1036+32 (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] MATSUMOTO,Sumio (ed.): Collection of the Land Surveys of Kikuka-Cho, Vol.2. Committee of Education of Kikuka-Cho, 317 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 工藤敬一: "肥後国玉名郡の荘園公領と在地領主" 文学部論叢(熊本大学). 61. 1-38 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 伊藤正彦: "元末一地方政治改革案-明初地方政治改革の先駆-" 東洋史研究. 56-1. 97-126 (1997)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 伊藤正彦: "中国史研究の『地域社会論』-方法的特質と意義-" 歴史評論. 582. 18-29 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 小畑弘巳: "大型銭の流通" わが国における銭貨生産-出土銭貨研究会第4回大会報告要旨-. 58-63 (1997)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 小畑弘巳: "清銭の流入と流通" 博多研究会誌. 5. 19-37 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 春田直紀: "大阪府漁業史" 大阪府漁業史編さん協議会. 97-109 (1997)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 春田直紀: "『日本のはじまり』をめぐって" 歴史評論. 584. 36-50 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 山田雅彦: "中世中期における市場と権力-12世紀フランドル伯領を中心に-" 社会経済史学. 63-2. 32-56 (1997)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 山田雅彦: "安全護送権と封建制の定立-12世紀フランス王領における王権と領主権-" 文学部論叢(熊本大学). 65. (1999)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 吉村豊雄: "初期大名家における隠居体制と藩主権力" 文学部論叢(熊本大学). 61. 39-67 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 吉村豊雄: "近世初期地方知行制と知行割替" 日本史研究. 429. 1-31 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 松本寿三郎: "山鹿郡之内南島与人畜家数御帳" 熊本史学. 74・75合併剛. 53-109 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 足立啓二: "専制国家史論-中国史から世界史へ-" 柏書房, 282 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 松本寿三郎(編): "菊鹿町検地帳集(二)" 菊鹿町教育委員会(熊本県鹿本郡菊鹿町), 317 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 工藤敬一: "肥後国玉名郡の荘園公領と在地領主" 文学部論叢. 61号. 1-38 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 松本寿三郎: "寛水10年肥後国山鹿郡南島与人書改帳" 熊本史学. 74・14号. 25-37 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 吉村豊雄: "初期大名における隠居体制と藩主権力" 文学部論叢. 61号. 39-68 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 小畑弘巳: "清銭の流入と流通" 法吟〓. 5. 19-37 (1997)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 山田雅彦: "中世中期における市場と権力" 社会経済史学. 63巻2号. 32-55 (1997)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 伊藤,正彦: "元末一地方政治改革案" 東洋史研究. 56巻1号. 97-126 (1997)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 足立啓治: "専制国家史論" 柏書房, 280 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 春田直紀: "大阪府漁業史" 大阪府漁業史編さん協議会, 1032 (1997)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report

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