Public affairs land - Kuujijoden

Japanese: 公事定田 - くうじじょうでん
Public affairs land - Kuujijoden

...In other words, the eldest son system had the function of serving public affairs. (4) The tax was imposed on the basis of the Gokenin's land, but strictly speaking, the land used as the basis was not the entire land, but was limited to the publicly registered area called the public land, or the official land, within the Gokenin's land. The above is the currently accepted theory regarding the Kanto Koji, but the Kanto Koji was also the economic foundation for the existence of the Shogunate, and the Shogunate feared a decrease in the Gokenin's land that would bear the tax, and enacted legislation to prevent this. ...

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

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…すなわち惣領制が公事勤仕の機能を有していたのである。(4)御家人を単位としてその所領を基準に賦課されたが,その基準となる所領とは,より厳密にいえば所領全体ではなく,御家人の所領内の公田すなわち公事定田と呼ばれる公的に登録された範囲に限定されていた。以上が関東公事について現在定説化されているところであるが,この関東公事は幕府存立の経済的基礎ともなるものであり,幕府としてはこれを負担する御家人所領の減少をおそれ,それを防止するための立法も行っている。…

※「公事定田」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。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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