著者

金谷 千亜紀

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.44, pp.3-15, 2010 (Released:2017-03-23)

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This essay aims at making clear the forest types of Oyama and its forms of utilization at Gonohe-dori in the Morioka clan, using "Gonohe Odaikanjo Oyama-chou", that had been in the possession of The former Aomori forestry commission, as material. Oyama was a kind of mountain forest among all the forests in that terrain, on which the Morioka clan that governed with strictly feudal system placed the greatest stress. And "Oyama-chou" is a register that was created on the basis of detailed research of Oyama. "Oyama-chou", in the forms of sticky notes and touching in, contains the description of utilization of mountain forest. The register says that the forests in this region were utilized in large part as a tool for building houses or artificial ditches. As for the rest, we find from this register that there were various a village that takes diverse forms of regular vocation that harnesses mountain forest resources in accordance with each geographical conditions, for example, a village which picks firewoods offered for sale, or a village which hews down mountain forests as a resource offered for farming. The mountain forest in that region (Oyama) is, for the native subordinates and people(farmers, subjects), a tool for a living, which supplies them resources connected with their life, and is, for the whole of the clan, so to speak, a reserve mountain, which compensates when the rest of the mountain forest resources get low. I could also confirm such character of public=private interest utlilizing Oyama as Osukui-yama, that is, a form of Oyama which is a means for helping starving people in famine. In sum, I showed the importance of Oyama for both sides of the clan and people.