The Book of Hou Ma (English: Hou Mǎ Méng shū)

Japanese: 侯馬盟書 - こうばめいしょ（英語表記）Hóu mǎ méng shū

A Book of Alliances was discovered in 1965-66 at a ritual site from the Eastern Zhou period on the eastern outskirts of Houma City, Shanxi Province, China. A Book of Alliances is a document that records the contents of an oath and is also called a Zaishu. Houma's Book of Alliances was written in red calligraphy on pieces of stone or jade, and of the more than 5,000 books of alliances found, 656 have identifiable characters. It will take some time to clarify the contents, but since it was discovered at a public ritual site in the capital of Jin, it is believed that the leader was the Duke of Jin, and that the alliance involved Zhao Yang, one of the Six Lords of Jin who later laid the foundations for the founding of the Zhao Dynasty, and that the period is estimated to be up to the middle of the 5th century BCE, during the late Spring and Autumn period.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国，1965年から66年にかけて山西省侯馬市東郊の東周時代の祭祀関係遺跡で発見された盟書。盟書とは誓盟の内容を書いたもので載書ともいう。侯馬の盟書は石片，玉片の上に毛筆で朱書されており，盟書5000余点のうち文字の識別できるものは656点である。内容の解明にはなお時間を要するが，発見場所が晋の国都の公的な祭祀場であることから，主盟者は晋公で，誓盟には晋の六卿で，のち趙の建国の基礎固めをした趙鞅（ちようおう）が関係しており，時期は春秋晩期の前5世紀半ばごろまでと推定される。

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