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A trading post with the Ainu that was controlled by the Matsumae Domain. Also called a trading place, a control place, an Ezo trading place, or simply a place, it was either directly managed by the domain or a certain area was given to a high-ranking vassal as a stipend. This type of chigyo (stipend) was called a trading place chigyo, and was unique to the Matsumae Domain. The trading place chigyo arose from the special nature of the feudal lord's daimyo chigyo right, which was the exclusive right to trade with Ezo (the Ainu), and the vassals' chigyo rights also had the character of being a form of distribution of the lord's chigyo rights. A vassal (chigyo owner) who had such rights was called a control place owner or a place owner. Although there are many unclear points about the content of the rights, it is believed that there were considerable restrictions in terms of lordship, because the highly productive large areas were directly managed by the feudal lord, and even in the provided land, the rights to gold mining, falconry, and good salmon and trout fishing were all in the hands of the feudal lord, and the dispatch of trading ships to the trading post required the permission of the feudal lord. The trading post was initially run directly by the feudal lord, with the company sending its own ships or hired ships to the site to trade with the Ainu, but it quickly shifted to contract management by merchants, and the management style changed from simple Ainu trade at the trading post to fishing management, and accordingly the nature of the trading post changed from being a place of trading to being a place of fishing management.

[Susumu Enomori]

"The Shogunate-Fan State and Hokkaido" by Kaibo Reio (1978, Sanichi Shobo) " "Research on the Early Modern History of Hokkaido" by Enomori Susumu (1982, Hokkaido Publishing Planning Center)

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松前(まつまえ)藩が支配したアイヌとの交易場。交易場所、支配所、蝦夷(えぞ)商場所、または単に場所などとも称され、藩が直接に経営するか、一定地域が上級家臣に給地として与えられた。このような知行(ちぎょう)形態を商場知行というが、これは松前藩独特のものである。商場知行は、領主の大名知行権が蝦夷地（アイヌ）交易独占権という特殊な性格から生じたもので、家臣の知行権もこうした領主の知行権の分与形態という性格を有している。こうした権利を有する家臣（知行主）を支配所持ち、場所持ちと称した。権利の内容については不明な点が多いが、生産力の高い大場所は領主の直営地であったこと、給地にあっても採金や鷹(たか)狩をはじめ良好なサケ漁やマス漁の権利はことごとく領主の手中にあったこと、商場への交易船の派遣も藩主の許可を必要としたことなどからして、領主権とのかかわりでは、かなり制約されたものであったとみられる。商場の経営は、当初は自営船、雇用船を現地に派遣してアイヌと交易を行う直営方式がとられたが、早期に商人の請負経営に移行し、かつ経営形態も単なる商場でのアイヌ交易から漁業経営へと変質し、それに伴い、商場の性格も交易の場から漁業経営の場という性格を濃厚にしていった。

［榎森　進］

『海保嶺夫著『幕藩制国家と北海道』（1978・三一書房）』▽『榎森進著『北海道近世史の研究』（1982・北海道出版企画センター）』

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