著者

渡邉 瑞恵 日坂 彰 中村 塑 町田 武美 Mizue WATANABE Akira NISSAKA Sou NAKAMURA Takemi MACHIDA 愛国学園大学人間文化学部 The College of Human and Cultural Sciences Aikoku Gakuen University

雑誌

愛国学園大学人間文化研究紀要 = Human and cultural sciences ; The journal of Aikoku Gakuen University (ISSN:1344705X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.16, pp.61-77, 2014-03-31

著者

中村 塑

出版者

日本農業史学会

雑誌

農業史研究 (ISSN:13475614)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.42, pp.94-102, 2008 (Released:2017-03-23)

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The purpose of this paper is to clarify the characteristics of the forms of land transaction documents in the Edo Period. The landlord who is the focus of this article, Hirayamake, resided in Kaburaki village in the Chiba Prefecture. In the Edo Period, the village was under rule of administrator of Shogunate (Daikan) and retainers of the Shogun (Hatamoto), which changed over time. The first change in the land transaction documents is the transformation from Eitaiuri, a permanent sales of land, into Uriwatashi, "sales". At the background of this transformation is the incident of punishment against the ban of Eitaiuri by the Shogunate. However, a de facto Eitaiuri that was disguised by other form of contract continued. After the incident, land sales were dominated by pawning instead of Uriwatashi, which was permitted by the Shogunate. Sale by pawning however did not continue entirely during the Edo period until Meiji Restoration. In the middle of Edo Period, Uriwatashi reappeared. Sales contracts disguised by pawning also appeared at the same time. Uriwatashi contracts reappeared when Kaburaki village came out of the Shogunate's rule. De facto Uriwatashi contracts disguised by pawning were initially found in the transactions with the village where Hirayamake did not reside. After, the Shogunate came back to rule Kaburaki village, disguised sales became dominant. Almost all of the land transactions within the village under the rule of the Shogunate were by pawning, which was the form of contract permitted by the Shogunate. Thus, Hirayamake changed the form of land transaction documents following the rule and intention of the rulers.