律令制下の賑給使と地方支配機構
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As one important means of controlling the masses in ancient Japan, the institution of the disaster relief, or shingo, involved the dispatch of envoys (shingo-shi賑給使) from the central government to the provinces. In the present article, the author examines the rationale of rule through such measures by the ritsuryo regime through clarifying substantively the activities of these envoys. Shingo, literally the provision of grain to the people free of obligation, was carried out under a number of circumstances. The practice existed in China from early on under the ideals of Confucianism, and because the circumstances under which it was adopted in Japan along with the ritsuryo codes, researchers have tended to consider the existence of related envoys as ceremonial in nature. However, of the shingo activities carried on in ancient Japan, those stipulated under the Code of Households (koryo戸令) have no relationship to Confucian ideology ; rather, the term "shingo" was borrowed and introduced as a state-instituted system for supporting the reproduction of the masses. The dispatch of shingo envoys under Code of Households stipulations originated under the Taiho Ritsuryo Codes based on requests for relief from the provinces. As local administrative mechanisms evolved and changed during the ritsuryo regime, shingo envoys were frequently dispatched for the purpose of maintaining law and order. However, in the process of the appointment of provincial governors during the ninth century, the dispatch of shingo envoys as representatives of the central government became repetitive and thus unneceassary ; and during the late years of the Jogan 貞観 era, the practice of shingo and the dispatch of related envoys disappeared from the provinces. After the decline of provincial shingo, the practice became a part yearly events limited to the vicinity of Heiankyo : and it was shingo envoys who played the most important role in such events. The ritsuryo state, which could no longer exercise control over the provinces through the institution of shingo, attempted to continue its control over the Heiankyo by maintaining shingo yearly events and the shingo-shi, who no longer acted as envoys, became mere symbols of the state's control over the people.
- 財団法人史学会の論文
- 2001-09-20
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