Katori Documents - Katori Monjosan

Japanese: 香取文書纂 - かとりもんじょさん

This is a collection of ancient documents compiled by the Japanese scholar Irokawa Sanchu (1802-55) of Tsuchiura, Hitachi Province, who transcribed documents owned by Katori Shrine and its shrine families and compiled them by family (in roughly chronological order) as material for his research on rice paddy systems. It has 62 volumes. It took six years to complete in 1848 (Kaei 1), and contains a total of over 1,500 documents dating back to the mid-Edo period. The scope and thoroughness of the collection makes it unparalleled among various collections of documents from the same period, and it is important not only for making up for documents that have since been lost or scattered, but also for showing the culmination of Edo paleographic studies.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

常陸国土浦の国学者色川三中(1802‐55)が田制研究の資料として，香取神宮とその社家の所蔵する文書を影写し，家別(ほぼ編年順)に編集した古文書集。62巻。6年を費やし1848年(嘉永1)に完成したもので，下限は江戸中ごろに及ぶ総数1500余通を収める。採集の範囲と周到は同時代の各種文書集の内でも群をぬいたもので，その後散逸･欠損した文書を補塡できるのみでなく，江戸古文書学の到達点を示すものとしても重要。

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