著者

間所 瑛史

出版者

一般社団法人 日本民俗学会

雑誌

日本民俗学 (ISSN:04288653)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.311, pp.35-53, 2022-08-31 (Released:2023-08-31)

参考文献数

22

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This article offers observations on the oral history of Tono-kochi in the Shori District of Kannamachi in Tano-gun, Gunma Prefecture, which is located near the boundary with Saitama Prefecture. It explains the historical background as seen from the local peopleʼs narrative and how this is understood at present.   Kannamachi was part of an area called sanchuryo, or a domain under the direct jurisdiction of the Edo Shogunate, during the early modern period. In the Genroku Era (1688-1704), a dispute over the fief boundary arose between the sanchuryo and Bushu. A court verdict determined that the line along the mountain ridge was the boundary. On the other hand, research has shown that the Kannagawa River running in the center of the sanchuryo used to be the fief boundary. It has been noted that perception of the boundary has been ambiguous.   In Tono-kochi on the right bank of the present Kannagawa, oral history has it that coal was buried in the mountain during the Meiji Period as evidence that a court decision changed the fief boundary. The former Shinto priest family of the Tono Shrine relayed the detailed history of the beginning of Tono-kochi and the change of fief boundary. However, the Tono Shrine was a shrine that had had connections with Chichibu since the Genroku Era. Moreover, the history of its affiliation with Bushu was known even outside Chichibu, and this history has gradually been understood through the ancestorsʼ experience and the excellent Shinto funeral tradition in the area on the right bank of Kannagawa. Furthermore, the period when the change of boundary allegedly took place was a time when the boundaries with Joshu, Iwahana Prefecture, and Gunma Prefecture were in flux. This was behind the history of fief boundary shift.   The history of boundary change in Tono-kochi has been passed on in oral history not only by way of the experience of people in the past, but also through present day geographical and cultural disparities.

著者

間所 瑛史

出版者

世間話研究会

雑誌

世間話研究 (ISSN:13415646)

巻号頁・発行日

no.26, pp.31-46, 2018-07