National lawsuit - Kokuso

Japanese: 国訴 - こくそ

A peasant struggle seen in the Kinai region during the late Edo period, where the commodity economy developed. Also called "kuniso." It began in 1823 with a legal battle over cotton and rapeseed cultivation, in which over 1,000 villages in Settsu and Kawachi provinces joined forces. Led mainly by local merchants, farmers on a county or national level, transcending the sphere of control, participated in the struggle, and opposed the distribution monopoly of feudal lords and urban stock associations, using legal means. The shogunate could not ignore this struggle, and dissolved the stock associations during the Tenpo Reforms.

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Japanese:

江戸後期，商品経済の発達した畿内においてみられた農民闘争。〈くにそ〉とも。1823年綿作・菜種を巡って摂津(せっつ)・河内(かわち)両国1000余ヵ村が連合して戦った法廷闘争が初め。主に在郷商人の指導により支配関係を超えた郡・国規模の農民が参加し，領主・都市株仲間の流通独占に反対，合法的手段で対抗した。幕府はこの闘争を無視できず，天保(てんぽう)改革では株仲間の解散を行った。

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