Kanbun Land Seal - Kanbun Land Seal

…He built a new Tsuyama Castle, and managed the castle town by gathering merchants and craftsmen from all over the domain. He also conducted the Keicho land survey, and worked to win over the local landlords, giving them the title of head farmer and appointing them as head village heads, chief ministers, village heads, etc., and worked hard to strengthen the system of local control. However, the Keicho land survey was hasty and careless, so the next lord, Nagatsugu, revised the land survey, the so-called Kanbun land acquisition (jioshi) (land acquisition), and relocated farmers living on the flat land to the hills to expand the cultivated land. In the survey in 1609 (Genroku 10), the results of the survey and the transfer of land from new fields led to the Tsuyama domain's internal income reaching 259,327 koku. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "Kanbun land ownership" is listed below.

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…彼は新規に津山城を築き，領内各地から商人，職人を集めて城下町を経営するとともに慶長検地を行い，また国衆の土着した土豪地主の懐柔に努め，頭百姓の格を与え，大庄屋，肝煎，庄屋などに取り立て，地方支配の体制強化に尽力した。しかし慶長検地は拙速ずさんであったため，次の藩主長継のとき検地の手直し，いわゆる寛文の地押（じおし）(地坪（じならし）)を実施し，また平地に住む農民を丘陵に移転させて耕地の拡大を図った。97年(元禄10)の調査では，検地竿先の出目と新田畑の高繰入れによって，津山藩の内高は25万9327石余に達した。…

※「寛文の地押」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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