Help money - Otetsudaikin

Japanese: 御手伝金 - おてつだいきん
Help money - Otetsudaikin

...Therefore, no government officials were dispatched to the site, and after completion, multiple daimyo shared the cost in proportion to the budget, and paid it to the shogunate's treasury within a certain period of time, according to the shogunate's orders. As the construction fee was paid in money, daimyo also began to make donations on request, and these daimyo payments (odekin, jokin) came to account for a large part of the shogunate's annual tax and foreign currency income. However, at the end of the Edo period, it became difficult to mobilize daimyo for construction work due to military mobilization for coastal defense and other purposes. ...

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

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…したがって御手伝方の役人が現地に出向することもなく,竣工後幕命により複数の大名が経費を高割で分担し,一定期日内に幕府御金蔵へ納入するしくみとなったのである。普請役の金納化とともに大名側からの依願形式による献金も行われるようになり,これらの大名出金(御手伝金,上納金)は幕府の年貢外貨幣収入の大きな部分を占めることになった。しかし幕末期に至ると海防などへの軍事動員のため大名を普請役に動員することは困難になった。…

※「御手伝金」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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