Decision (village law) - Gijo

…As the Sengoku daimyo gained control over villages, the unity of the villages declined significantly, and the village laws were limited to those necessary for maintaining agricultural order, such as village rituals and the use of water and forests, and transitioned to the village laws of the early modern period. [Ishida Yoshito]
[Early Modern Period]
It is also called muragime, gijo, or village rules. In the early modern period, village decision-making by villagers' assemblies was prohibited by the feudal lord as it was viewed as cliques, so the assembly rules disappeared.

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Protocol (village law)" are listed below.

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…戦国大名の村落支配が確立するようになると惣の団結は大きく後退し，惣掟も村落の祭祀や，用水･山林利用など農耕秩序の維持に必要な条項に限られるようになり，近世の村法に移行する。【石田 善人】
［近世］
　村極（むらぎめ），議定（ぎじよう），村掟などともいう。近世に入ると，村民集会による村の意思決定は，領主により徒党として禁止されるようになるので，集会規定が消滅してくる。…

※「議定（村法）」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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