Sweeping Department (Sweeping Officer) - Kamori

Japanese: 掃部(掃守) - かにもり

From the story in the Shinsen Shojiroku that Amenooshihito no Mikoto, the ancestor of the Muraji clan, was given the surname Muraji because he supervised cleaning during the reign of Emperor Yuryaku, we can see that the Muraji clan was a Tomo no Miyatsuko who served in cleaning and paving the palace before the Ritsuryo state. The Sweeping Officers and Tono Sweeping Officers of the Ritsuryo system's Sweeping Officers, Inner Sweeping Officers, and Harumiya Bozudenshi were Tonobe. Sweeping Officers and Sweeping Officers were originally read as Kamumori, but the Kogo Shūi tells us that Amenooshihito no Mikoto was called Kanimori (Crab Guardian) because he accompanied the seaside birthing house at the time of the birth of Emperor Jimmu's father and swept away crabs with a broom, which is merely a play on words based on the corrupted form of Kamumori.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

掃守連（むらじ）の祖の天忍人命（あめのおしひとのみこと）が雄略天皇代に掃除の事を監したので掃守連の姓を与えられたという《新撰姓氏録》の説話から，掃守氏は律令制国家以前に宮殿の掃除･鋪設に奉仕した伴造（とものみやつこ）であることがわかる。令制の掃部司･内掃部司･春宮坊主殿署の掃部や殿掃部は伴部である。掃守，掃部は古くは〈かむもり〉と訓ずるが，《古語拾遺》に天忍人命が神武天皇の父の誕生の際の海辺の産屋に供奉しカニをほうきではらったので蟹守（かにもり）と号したと伝えるのは，〈かむもり〉の転訛の〈かにもり〉による語呂合せにすぎない。

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