Kintonomaki

…The public pastures found in the Engishiki were reorganized in response to these circumstances, and as shown in the table, they were concentrated in the border regions where there was a lot of uncultivated land. The Engishiki lists four types of pastures: (1) 39 official pastures (27 horses, 15 cattle) under the Ministry of War, (2) 32 imperially ordered pastures under the Left and Right Bureaus of Horses, (3) seven Kinto pastures, both in Ieshima and Tokyo, and (4) Ajihara pasture of the Bureau of Medicine, which was used for cultivating medicinal plants and collecting milk. Of these, the official pastures are considered to have inherited the pasture system established under the Ritsuryo system, but here they were changed so that horses and cattle produced along with the imperially ordered pastures were presented as tribute to the central government, and the Kinto pastures were distinctive in that they were used to raise the horses and cattle presented as tribute. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Kintsumaki" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…《延喜式》にみられる公牧はこうした状況に対応して編成替えされたもので，表のように未墾地の多い辺境地方に集中している。《延喜式》には(1)兵部省管下の〈官牧〉39牧(馬27，牛15)，(2)左右馬寮管下の〈勅旨牧〉32牧，(3)同じく〈近都牧〉，家嶋とも7牧，(4)薬園の耕作と牛乳の採取を目的とした典薬寮の味原牧，の4種がみられる。このうち官牧は令の牧制を継承したものとみられるが，ここでは勅旨牧とともに生産した馬牛を中央に貢上するように変わっており，また近都牧は貢上された馬牛を飼養するところに特色がある。…

※「近都牧」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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