Deposit land - Azukarichi

Japanese: 預地 - あずかりち

It means land entrusted to someone else for management, and can also be read as "Azukachi." In the Edo period, it referred to cases such as (1) a nearby village headman who was entrusted with the management of land that had become unoccupied due to the land division and land division scheme, (2) land that a landowner lent to a permanent tenant farmer as a favor, and (3) cases in which the shogunate entrusted the management of nearby shogunate land to a daimyo, a distant province magistrate, a hatamoto, temple, or shrine. In the case of (3), it was also called a Goryochi or Azukarisho (azukari-dokoro), and the daimyo-yakusho was generally to follow the governing policy of the daimyo family that entrusted it to them, but in some cases it was under the direction of the shogunate's finance magistrate. In 1713, the shogunate abolished all daimyo-yakusho and made them all direct territories, but in 1720 it was reinstated.
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Japanese:

他から預り管理を依頼された土地の意で，〈あずけち〉とも読む。江戸時代，（１）割地・地割により残地・袋地となった家作のない土地を近くの名主が預かる場合，（２）永代の小作人に地主が恩恵的に貸与した土地，（３）幕府が大名・遠国奉行・旗本・寺社などに近辺の幕府領の管理を委ねた場合などをいった。（３）の場合は御領地・預所(あずかりしょ)/(あずかりどころ)ともいい，大名預所は預けられた大名家の統治方針に従うのが原則であったが，一部，幕府勘定奉行の指揮をうけることもあった。1713年幕府は大名預所を全廃，すべて直轄領としたが，1720年に復活された。
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