Sanuki Province Yamada County Rice Map - Sanuki Province Yamada County Rice Map

Japanese: 讃岐国山田郡田図 - さぬきのくにやまだぐんでんず

This is a rice field map created by Kofukuji Sanjo in 735 (Tenpyo 7) for the rice fields of Nijū-chō, Yamada County, Sanuki Province, which were recorded in the Kofukuji Water and Land Field Catalog of 709 (Wado 2). Although it is the oldest rice field map, it is not the original, but a copy thought to have been created around the 11th or 12th century. Kofukuji (Kawahara-dera) became a branch temple of Toji Temple from the 9th century onwards, and in the 12th century, the temple land and its surroundings became the property of the head priest of Toji Temple, so the Kofukuji documents came to be passed down as part of the Toji documents. The rice field map was kept at Toji Temple until the end of the Edo period, and its existence was widely known and copies were made, but it was eventually lost and passed on to Kashiwagi Kaichiro, who acquired it in 1882, when Matsuoka Shirabe acquired it, and it is currently kept in his Tawa Bunko (Shido-cho, Okawa-gun, Kagawa Prefecture).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

709年(和銅2)弘福寺水陸田目録に記された〈讃岐国山田郡弐拾町〉の水田の地について，弘福寺三綱が735年(天平7)に作成した田図。最も古い年紀を持つ田図であるが，原本ではなく，11～12世紀ごろに作成されたと考えられる写本である。弘福寺(川原寺)は9世紀以降に東寺の末寺化が進み，12世紀には寺領も含めて東寺長者の所領と化したため，弘福寺文書は東寺文書の一部として伝来することとなった。田図は幕末まで東寺に所蔵され，その存在は広く知られ模写も行われたが，やがて流出し，柏木貨一郎を経て1882年に松岡調が入手し，彼の多和文庫(香川県大川郡志度町)に現蔵されている。

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