Onden peasant village - Onden peasant village

Japanese: 隠田百姓村 - おんでんひゃくしょうむら
Onden peasant village - Onden peasant village

...It can also refer to settlements that farmers developed and settled in seclusion to avoid taxes. Both were settlements that had withdrawn from the political and administrative systems of the time, and are also called hidden farm villages or hermit farm villages. Many were located on terraces in mountainous areas or on cliffs along rocky coasts in coastal areas, and they cultivated barnyard millet, beans, foxtail millet, corn, buckwheat, and other crops by slash-and-burn agriculture.

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "Kakuden Farmer Village" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…あるいはまた農民が租税を逃れるために隠遁して開拓し定住した集落をもいう。いずれも当時の政治行政的体制から離脱した集落であり,隠田百姓村,隠遁百姓村ともいわれる。多くは山間部の段丘や,海岸部でも岩石海岸の断崖上などにあって,焼畑農耕によってヒエ,豆類,アワ,トウモロコシ,ソバなどを栽培した。…

※「隠田百姓村」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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