Kajitori - helmsman

Japanese: 梶取 - かじとり

Also called kandori. A title given to the captain of a ship who steered it, which later became the name of a boatman. Under the ancient Ritsuryo system, private seamen and fishermen were often employed as kajitori to transport tributes such as cho and yo. As the Ritsuryo system declined and it became more common to transport manor taxes and official goods by ship, manor officials and village heads were increasingly given land grants to them as kajitori and made to bear full responsibility for transportation. There were many independent kajitori who were not under the control of the manor lord, but the manor heads-type kajitori also gradually gained independence by taking on tax transportation for other manors and engaging in private business, and grew into larger distributors.
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Japanese:

〈かんどり〉ともいう。船の長として舵をとって漕いだものの称で，のちの船頭に連なる。古代律令制下では調・庸など貢納物の輸送に民間の海人や漁民を雇用して梶取とする例が多かった。律令制が衰退し，荘園の年貢・公事物などを船で運搬することが多くなると，荘官や名主(みょうしゅ)などに給田を支給して梶取とし，輸送の全責任を負わせることが増えていった。荘園領主の支配と無関係の独立した梶取も少なくなかったが，荘園の名主的梶取も他荘の年貢輸送を引き受けたり，私的な商行為を行ったりして，徐々に独立性を高め，より大規模な流通業者として成長していった。
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