Joint network - Kyodoami

…In early modern fishing villages, the composition of the peasant class remains the same as in rural areas, but the peasant nets seen in the Uwajima and Yoshida domains are temporary net fishing operations permitted to the Urakata peasants who pay the fishing tax and other duties and occupy and use the fishing grounds in front of the village, except for the village officials who inherited the nets. They are small net fishing operations carried out by small fishermen in fishing villages who have weak rights to occupy and use the fishing grounds, and they were operated as communal nets or village nets in the gaps between privileged net fishing in some of the common fishing grounds in front of the villages that were also open to traveling nets. The existence of peasant nets is so old that they can be found in documents from the Aokata clan, the land steward of Ojika and Urabe islands in Hizen Province in the Middle Ages (Draft of a jointly signed letter from Atsutō, dated 1400). …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "joint networks" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…近世の漁村では農村同様，百姓身分の構成に変りはないが，宇和島藩，吉田藩にみられる百姓網は漁業年貢，諸役を負担し，村の地先漁場を占有利用する浦方百姓のうち，網を世襲的に持っている村役人を除く他の漁民に，臨時的に許可された網漁経営である。それは，漁村にあって漁場占有利用権の弱い小漁民が行う小網漁で，旅網（たびあみ）にも開放された村地先の一部入会漁場で，特権的網漁の間隙に共同網，村網として操業された。百姓網の存在は，中世肥前国小値賀（おぢか）･浦部両島の地頭職青方氏の文書にみえるほど古い(応永7年(1400)〈篤等連署押書状案〉)。…

※「共同網」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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