Village register - Goson takacho

Japanese: 郷村高帳 - ごうそんたかちょう

In the Edo period, this was a ledger in which feudal lords such as daimyo and hatamoto listed the names of villages and their land area within their territories. It was generally created as a ledger to confirm the need for the lord to collect annual taxes and to confirm the territory of his control, but it was also created as a basic document to receive a new red seal certificate of land area from the shogunate when a new shogun was appointed, and submitted to the shogunate. The cover reads "Registry of a certain province and county (Registry of a certain county and village)" and lists the names of each village, its land area, and the total for each county within the territory. [Kasatani Kazuhiko]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

江戸時代，大名･旗本らの領主がみずからの領内の村名･村高を列記した帳簿。一般に領主の年貢収納の必要と，支配領域の確認のための原簿として作成されたが，また将軍の代替りの際に幕府から新規の領知朱印状の交付を受けるため，その基礎資料として作成されて幕府に提出された。表紙には〈某国某郡郷村帳(郷村高辻帳)〉とあり，所領内の郡別に各村名とその村高，そしてその合計とが記載されている。【笠谷和比古】

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