Military service

Japanese: 軍役衆 - ぐんやくしゅう

During the Sengoku period, these were people who were newly separated from peasant status and required to perform military service. The Erinji Land Survey Diary of 1563 (Eiroku 6) lists 23 military service members along with 12 vassals (police constables) who served in the military and 145 general peasants. When this is examined together with the Erinji Land Grain and Rice and Public Affairs Tax Register, which was originally part of the land survey diary, it is clear that the constables were vassals who served as constables for the subordinate generals of the Takeda clan of Kai, and were organized at the bottom of the yorioya-yoriko system, and that the land that was the subject of the land survey was confirmed as their main territory as a favor to the emperor.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

戦国時代に新たに百姓身分から分離されて軍役を負わされた者。1563年(永禄6)の《恵林寺領御検地日記》には，勤軍役御家人衆(同心衆)12名，惣百姓145名とならんで，軍役衆23名が記載されている。これを本来検地日記の一部であった〈恵林寺領穀米幷公事諸納物帳〉とともに見てみると，同心衆は甲斐武田氏の部将の同心として寄親･寄子制の末端に編成される家臣であり，検地の対象となった名請地は御恩として本領安堵がされている。

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