紀州の近世における地方行政区劃の変遷と村落の分合
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Kishû is a district on the Pacific coast in the west of the Kii Peninsula in Japan. In the early years of the modern times it was governed by the feudal lord Asano. A system of local administrative sections called ‘shô’ was established in those days. This division of ‘shô’ originated in the medieval manor. Under the lordship of Asano ‘shô’ generally contained eight villages.When Tokugawa became the next lord of the district, the system of ‘shô’ was abolished, and in its stead the new system called ‘kumi’ was set down. ‘Kumi’ was much larger than ‘shô’, containing eighteen villages on the whole. In general, a village was composed of one comparatively large hamlet and several smaller ones. This large hamlet was called ‘honson’ or ‘hongô’, and smaller ones ‘shigô’ or ‘kona’.A village had to offer to its lord 60% of the products of rice fields as taxes. There were some villages the taxes of which were allotted for the financial resources of the lord himself, and others the taxes of which were applied to the rations of his retainers. The former villages were called ‘okurasho’, and the latter ‘kyusho’. Both the richest and the poorest villages were appropriated for ‘okurasho’, but those of moderate means were ‘kyusho’. The retainers had no right to govern their ‘kyusho’. But the two most powerful retainers, Andô and Mizuno, had many villages over which they had power to govern and collect their taxes. There were two groups of these villages, one of which was ‘Tanabe-han’ and the other ‘Shingû-han’.‘Shô’ established in the time of Asano lost its form as an administrative section in the Tokugawa era, but it retained some significance as religious atmosphere produced by a shrine in the life of villagers.When Japan developed into a modern state in the era of Meiji, the sections of towns and villages grew amazingly enlarged. The local administrative sections in Kishû became almost as broad as ‘shô’ in the time of Asano. After. World War II, Japan has been under the necessity of enlarging the sections of towns and villages. As a result their sections have become nearly as large as ‘kumi’ in the days of Tokugawa.
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