The idea of ​​kingship and kingship - Oudou Ouminshisou

...Therefore, it is believed that the potential for considering kubunden as public land existed from the beginning of the implementation of the Ritsuryo system. This idea of ​​public land and citizens has some similarities to the traditional Chinese idea of ​​the king's land and his subjects, but the idea of ​​the king's land and his subjects, which considered all land to be the king's land and all people to be his subjects, was a higher-level idea that assumed and encompassed the separation of public and private. However, in the Ritsuryo state of Japan, which was established on the basis of incorporating primitive communities represented by local chiefs into the ruling system, a full-scale separation between public land and private land had not yet occurred....

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to the "Wangtu Wangshin ideology" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…したがって口分田を公田と観念する潜在的可能性は，律令制施行の当初から存在していたと考えられる。このような公田･公民の観念は，中国の伝統的な王土王臣思想と類似する面もあるが，すべての土地を王土とし，すべての民を王臣とする王土王臣思想は，公と私との分裂を前提とし，それを包括する高次の観念であった。しかし，在地首長が代表する未開な共同体をそのまま支配体制のなかに取り込み，それを基礎にして成立した日本の律令国家においては，まだ公田と私田との本格的な分裂はおこっていなかったと考えられる。…

※「王土王臣思想」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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