著者

斎藤 夏来 SAITO Natsuki

出版者

名古屋大学附属図書館研究開発室

雑誌

名古屋大学附属図書館研究年報 (ISSN:1348687X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.17, pp.56-46, 2020-03-31

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This paper discusses social ramifications of a cache of old documents dating to 1491 that was sent by a man named Saemon no Taifu that was recently discovered in a storehouse of Daisen-ji temple in the Chita district of Aichi Prefecture. The documents-including a kakocho death register and a genealogy for Saemon no Taifu-are currently housed with papers of the Noma Family and Physicians of the Owari Clan papers in the Nagoya University Manuscript Collection. Among other things, the records reveal (1) that the current Daisen-ji temple in Chita district was erected on the site of a smaller hermitage from the pre-Tokugawa era called Nyoian, (2) that Saemon no Taifu and his immediate successors were jizamurai-that is, part-time samurai warriors who also cultivated the land-thus exemplifying blurrier social distinctions before Toyotomi Hideyoshi implemented his heino bunri policy separating peasants from warriors, and (3) that succession to Saemon no Taifu's position as head priest of the Nyoi-an hermitage could be achieved in a variety of ways: blood-line inheritance, adoption of an adult male successor, or through a master-disciple relationship. Older pre-Tokugawa temples like Nyoi-an were pulled down and replaced by early-modern temples like Daisen-ji as the earlier era of ambiguous social distinctions gave way to Hideyoshi's social policies at the end of the 16th century creating strict separation between warriors and peasants (heino bunri) and between the clergy and laity (sozoku bunri).