Person in charge - Dealer

Japanese: 噯人 - あつかいにん

...During the Warring States period, this method was shaken by the intensification of conflicts among local feudal lords and the widespread nature of the disputes, and disputes among the feudal lords were gradually entrusted to public judicial authority, eventually putting an end to this method, but in the case of farmers, it continued to exist as a common method of resolving disputes even in the Edo period. [Katsumata Shizuo]
[Early Modern Period]
This was also called tsutsurai, and the intermediary was called tsutsurainin or tsutsurainin. The Edo Shogunate made it a rule that private disputes should be resolved privately through discussion between the parties involved and mutual compromise, and it was only when it was unavoidable that it would decide on the validity of the claims of the plaintiff and defendant and issue a ruling.

From [Seiguchi]

…In civil cases (kuji, shidomono), the magistrate's office always recommended private settlement, and private settlement was possible at any stage of the trial. In addition to relatives and town and village officials, temples and kujiyado (inns where people involved in litigation stayed, with the owner and shidai playing a role similar to that of a lawyer) usually acted as intermediaries (atsukainin/handlers). After careful discussion, when a solution was reached, a document detailing the settlement, called a 'seikou shomon (internal settlement document),' was submitted to the magistrate's office for approval. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "噯人" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…戦国時代，在地領主階級の対立の激化，紛争の広域化などにより，この方式は動揺し，領主階級の紛争はしだいに公的裁判権にゆだねられるようになり，やがてこの方式は終止符をうつが，農民の場合は，江戸時代においてもなお一般的紛争解決方式として存在しつづけた。【勝俣鎮夫】
［近世］
　取扱ともいい，仲介者を噯人，扱人と称した。江戸幕府は，私的紛争は当事者間で話し合い，互譲，解決する内済（ないさい）を原則とし，原告被告の主張の当否を判断して裁許（さいきよ），すなわち判決を下すのは，やむをえない場合に限られた。…

【済口】より

…民事事件(公事（くじ），出入物)では奉行所は終始内済を勧めるのであって，裁判のどの段階においても内済することが可能である。親類，町村役人のほか，寺院や公事宿（くじやど）(訴訟関係者の宿泊する宿屋で，主人･下代は弁護士類似の役割を果たす)などが仲介者(噯人（あつかいにん）･扱人)となるのが通常であった。熟談のうえ解決策がまとまると，その内容を記した〈済口証文(内済証文)〉を奉行所に提出して承認を求める。…

※「噯人」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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