Documents of Oshima Okutsushima Shrine - Oshima Okutsushima Shrine Documents

...The name of a place in Gamo District, Omi Province (present-day Omihachiman City, Shiga Prefecture). Before the Sengoku period, it was an independent island floating on Lake Biwa, forming Okushima Manor. The Edo period geography book Omi no Kuni Yochi Shiryaku states that it is located northwest of Kitanosho, is not connected to the mainland, and is separated by a reed marsh. Okushima consists of the villages of Ohama, Shirabe, Maruyama, Okushima, Kitatsuda, and Nakanosho, and in ancient times was a mikuriya that offered tribute to the imperial court in the form of mube, icefish, crucian carp, trout, and ameuo. During the Muromachi period, the people of Okushima Manor were called mube kugonin.

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…近江国蒲生郡(現，滋賀県近江八幡市)の地名。戦国時代以前は琵琶湖に浮かぶ独立した島で，奥島荘を形成。江戸時代の地誌《近江国輿地志略》には〈北庄の西北にあり，地続きあらず，葭沼（よしぬま）ありて間隔たる〉とある。奥島は王浜，白部，円山，奥島，北津田，中庄の村からなり，古代にはムベ，氷魚（ひうお），フナ，マス，阿米魚（あめうお）を朝廷に貢納する御厨（みくりや）であった。室町時代，奥島荘民は薁(郁子)（むべ）供御人と称されている。…

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