Kurobee Ogawa

Japanese: 小川九郎兵衛 - おがわ・くろべえ

Year of death: 17th December 1670 (7th February 1670)
Year of birth: Genna 8 (1622)
A local lord who promoted the development of new fields in Musashino in the early Edo period. His given name was Yasuji. He was from Kishimura, Tamagun, Musashi Province (Musashimurayama City, Tokyo). He applied to the shogunate in 1656, and the following year began development in Musashino, about 10km southeast of Kishimura. He created a village-like settlement along the Ome Highway at the junction of the Tamagawa Aqueduct and the Nobidome Irrigation Canal, and developed a strip of new fields behind it, which he named Ogawa Shinden (Kodaira City, Tokyo). The new fields became a relay point for horses transporting white clay (lime) from Ome to Edo, and also paid for the horse-drawn carriages. His descendants held the position of headman of the village until the end of the Edo period. <References> "Ogawa Family Documents" (held at Kodaira City Library), "Kodaira Town History," Kimura So and Ito Koichi's "Shinden Village"

(Negishi Shigeo)

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Japanese:

没年：寛文9.12.17(1670.2.7)
生年：元和8(1622)
江戸前期に武蔵野の新田開発を推進した土豪。諱は安次。武蔵国多摩郡岸村(東京都武蔵村山市)の出身。明暦2(1656)年幕府に出願,翌年岸村の東南東約10kmの武蔵野で開発に着手。玉川上水と野火止用水の分水地点に,青梅街道に沿い街村状の集落を作り,その後背に短冊型の新畑を開発,小川新田(東京都小平市)と名付けた。新田は,青梅から江戸への白土(石灰)運送の馬継場となり伝馬をも負担。子孫は幕末まで同村の名主を世襲。<参考文献>「小川家文書」(小平市立図書館蔵),『小平町誌』,木村礎・伊藤好一『新田村落』

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