Fishing ground allocation system - Gyojowarikaeseido

...The peasant class was divided into a small upper class with large shares of fishing grounds and large land ownership, and a large middle and lower class with small shares of fishing grounds and small land ownership. I would like to mention the fishing grounds allocation system here. In reality, the value of fishing grounds varies greatly depending on the location, so in order to equalize the value, various forms of allocation systems were widely seen in various places within the fishing grounds of a village.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…そして本百姓層は漁場占有利用権の持分が大きく土地所有も大きい少数の上層と，漁場占有利用権の持分も土地所有もともに小さい多数の中下層に分かれた。なおここで漁場割替制度について触れておきたい。現実の漁場は場所によってその価値が大きく異なっているから，その平等化を図るために村内の漁場内でさまざまな形態の割替制度が各地で広くみられた。…

※「漁場割替制度」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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