Enoki family

…The direct work of the deputy governor was done by the monks who were in charge of miscellaneous duties, and the deputy governor was contracted to pay the taxes. This led to resistance from powerful local headmen, and the taxes were not paid and the deputy governor was replaced. When the Enoki clan, a vassal of the Hosokawa clan, the governor of Settsu Province, became the deputy governor at the beginning of the 15th century, they used their power as the backing of the governor to expel the strong clerks in the manor. The Enoki clan then inherited the position of deputy governor for several generations, and at one time even paid the contracted taxes. After the Onin War, the Enoki clan was placed under the feudal control of the Ikeda clan, local lords in Hokusetsu, and Tarumi Manor was dissolved and absorbed into the Early Modern Villages. …

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

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…その直務も供僧らが所務雑掌や，その代官に年貢を請け負わせる方式であったから，在地有力名主らの抵抗もあって，年貢の未進とそれに伴う代官の改任が続いた。15世紀のはじめ摂津国守護の細川氏の被官榎木氏が代官になると，守護勢力を背景として荘内の〈強々番頭〉らを追放し，以後数代にわたって榎木氏が代官職を世襲して，一時は請負年貢も納入された。応仁の乱後，その榎木氏一族も，北摂の国人池田氏らの領主的支配下におかれ，垂水荘は近世村落の中に解体吸収された。…

※「榎木氏」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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