Edaura

...The historical characteristics of the medieval fishing villages created under the manor system can be summarized as follows: (1) The various ura distributed over a wide area were under the same head office, forming a parent ura-branch ura relationship, and by their power they held wide-area fishing and maritime traffic rights. (2) Within the superior sovereignty of the manor head office over each ura, there was a potential for communal ownership of the waters off the coast of the ura and the mountains and fields behind it by the people of the ura, as shown by the "ura custom" that "within the bosom of both mountains, the ura serves as the fishing ground for that ura."...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Edaura" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…そこに創出された荘園制下の中世漁村の歴史的特徴は次の二つにまとめられる。(1)広域に分布する諸浦が同一の本所を戴いて親浦―枝浦の関係を構成し，その実力により広域的な出漁･海上交通権を保持していたこと。(2)個々の浦に対する荘園本所の上級領有権の内部には，〈両方山の懐の内はその浦につき漁仕候〉という〈浦々習〉が示すように，浦の民衆による地先水面や後背山野への共同体所有が潜在していたこと。…

※「枝浦」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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