Local Legend Records - Local Legend Records

This is one of the representative local books of the Edo period. The author was Oishi Hisataka (Ijuro). It was published in 1794 (Kansei 6). Hisataka was from Kurume, Chikugo Province (Fukuoka Prefecture), and was employed by the Takasaki Domain in 1783 (Tenmei 3) at the age of 59. He later became the domain's county magistrate, and in 1791 (Kansei 3) he began writing this book at the order of the domain's lord, Matsudaira Teruyasu. He completed 11 of the planned 16 volumes, but the remaining 5 were left unfinished due to his death in 1794. The contents of this book cover a wide range of agricultural and civil administration, including rice paddy and tax systems, construction regulations, and weights and measures. This book systematically describes the practical aspects of village governance, and is one of the most excellent local texts from the Edo period, along with the Minminshoyo. Various versions remain in circulation to this day, but they can be broadly divided into three types: (1) the "handwritten copy of the circulated version" owned by the Tokugawa Forestry History Research Institute and Waseda University, (2) the "Tojo version" revised and supplemented by Tojo Ko (Kindai) at the request of the senior councilor Mizuno Tadakuni, and (3) the "Okura version" revised by a man named Okura Nori from Nanso and published in 1866 (Keio 2). There are slight differences in the titles and number of topics, the presence or absence of furigana, etc. It is included in Volume 43 of the "Japanese Economic Encyclopedia" edited by Takimoto Seiichi, and Volume 31 of the "Japanese Economic Collection" edited by the same editor.

[Chiaki Iijima]

"Local Legends, Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Oishi Shinzaburo (1969, Kondo Publishing)"

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江戸時代の代表的な地方書(じかたしょ)の一つ。著者は大石久敬(ひさたか)（猪十郎(いじゅうろう)）。1794年（寛政6）刊。久敬は筑後(ちくご)国（福岡県）久留米(くるめ)の出身で、1783年（天明3）59歳のとき高崎藩に召し抱えられる。のち同藩郡奉行(こおりぶぎょう)となり、91年（寛政3）藩主松平輝和(てるやす)の命により本書の著述に着手する。予定16巻のうち11巻まで著述し終わるも、残り5巻は94年その死により未完となった。本書の内容は、田制、税制をはじめ普請方(ふしんかた)や度量衡など農政・民政全般にわたっている。村方統治の実務的事項が体系的に叙述されており、『民間省要(せいよう)』などと並び江戸時代の地方書としてもっとも優れた著作の一つである。今日まで諸種の異本が流布するが、(1)徳川林政史研究所、早稲田(わせだ)大学所蔵の「筆写流布本」、(2)老中水野忠邦(ただくに)の要請で東条耕（琴台(きんだい)）が改正・補訂を加えた「東条本」、(3)南総の大倉儀なる人物が校訂し、1866年（慶応2）に刊行された「大倉本」、の3系統に大別でき、項目名や項目数、振り仮名の有無などに若干の差がみられる。瀧本(たきもと)誠一編『日本経済大典』第43巻、同編『日本経済叢書(そうしょ)』第31巻所収。

［飯島千秋］

『大石慎三郎校訂『地方凡例録』上下（1969・近藤出版社）』

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