Kawai Tozaemon - Kawai Tozaemon

...It was called the Mankoku Sodo because it was an uprising by villages in the 10,000 koku domain of the feudal lord Yashiro. Due to financial difficulties in the Hojo domain, a new member of the shogunate, Kawai Tozaemon, was sent down to the domain and, together with the magistrate, he harshly increased the tax (adding 6,000 koku of tax to the 10,000 koku domain of the previous year (7th year of the Hoei era)). At the same time, he continued to exploit the peasants, refusing to accept their complaints, by collecting tax on sake and koji shops that had already been abolished by the shogunate. Several headmen went to Edo on the orders of the domain, accompanied by headmen and headmen from the entire domain, totaling 600 people, to make a petition at the domain residence in Edo. ...

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…藩主屋代氏の領地1万石の村々の一揆なので万石騒動と呼ばれる。北条藩では財政不如意のために新参の用人家老相談役川井藤左衛門を藩領に下向させて，代官ともども過酷な年貢増徴(前年(宝永7)の1万石の惣成に引き合わせて6000俵余の高免の年貢割付け)を行う一方，すでに幕府により廃止された酒屋糀屋（こうじや）運上金を取り立てるなど，百姓の嘆訴を拒否して搾取を強行した。藩命で出府する名主数名に，全領600人の名主･惣百姓も同行して江戸藩邸に門訴（もんそ）した。…

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