Imperial Forest Location Register - Ohayashikasho Tsukecho

... The management and administration of the Shogunate's forests was the responsibility of the Finance Magistrate, and the administrative affairs were overseen by the Forest Magistrate directly under him, but the direct management of the forests scattered throughout the provinces was the responsibility of the local magistrates (gundai). The forest registers kept by the Shogunate were simply called the Forest Register, or were also called the Forest Registers of Various Provinces or the Registers of Various Places. The registers included detailed records of the forests' locations (village names), area, number of trees by species and trunk circumference, forest type and land advantage, felling and planting years, and transportation distances to Edo or to markets and ports. When the magistrate in charge was replaced or the fief was transferred, the forest registers were handed over to clarify the current state of the forests. This Imperial Forest Register was accompanied by a separate volume of illustrated forests, and similar Imperial Forest Registers and illustrated maps were also created by private domains, but there were differences in the names of the registers and the contents recorded, whether in traditional or simplified Japanese. However, in 1872 (Meiji 5), after the abolition of the feudal domains and the establishment of prefectures, the new government required each prefecture to record a unified Imperial Forest Register, which was based on the Edo shogunate's records and required prefectures to report the current status of government forests (former Imperial forests) within their jurisdiction, and this formed the basis of the current national forests.

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the "Imperial Forest Register" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…　なお，幕府御林の管理経営は勘定奉行に属し，事務は直属の御林奉行が管掌したが，諸国に散在した御林の直接的な管理は現地の代官(郡代)に属した。また幕府に常備された御林台帳は普通に御林帳といい，諸国御林帳，御林個所付帳とも唱えたが，帳面には御林の所在(郷村名)，面積をはじめ，樹種･幹周り別の木数，林相･地利，伐木･植樹年次，江戸または市場･港津までの輸送距離までが明細に調記され，所管代官の交替や知行割渡しの際には，御林帳抜差，御普請木伐渡，枯木･根返り，払減木などの添帳によって加除訂正を加え，御林の現況を明らかにして授受されるものであった。この御林帳には別冊の御林絵図が付属し，類似の御林帳や絵図は私藩でも作成されたが，帳簿の名称や記載内容には繁簡異同の差があったのに対し，廃藩置県後の1872年(明治5)，新政府が各府県に録上させた統一的な御林帳は，幕府のそれに準じて管内の官林(旧御林)の現況を報告させたもので，これによって現国有林の原形が形成された。…

※「御林個所付帳」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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