Shokuriyamachi - Shokuriyamachi

Japanese: 諸司厨町 - しょしくりやまち

The lodgings attached to each government office in Kyoto, or the area in which the lodgings were located. The name comes from the fact that lower-ranking government officials and people who were conscripted from the provinces lived and slept there. Their existence is known from the early 9th century, in the early Heian period, so it is clear that they were developed as part of the construction of the capital, but they were mainly distributed north of Nijo-dori in Sakyo, and their types and locations are known from articles in the Shugaisho and various maps of Kyoto. After the end of the Heian period, with the decline of government offices, the various Tsukushi-machi towns became nameless and many became privately owned land, but some were maintained as government land even during the Muromachi period, and the land rent income from them became an important source of income for the nobles of the time, and in the case of Tsukushi-machi towns of government offices related to production and transportation, the residents formed za and played an active role.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

官衙ごとに京中に設けられていた付属の宿所，あるいはその宿所のある区画。当該官衙に所属する下級官人や地方から徴発された課役民が，寝食起居したことからその名がある。平安初期，9世紀初頭から存在が知られるから，造都の一環として整備されたことがわかるが，主として左京の二条通以北に分布していたのが特徴で，《拾芥抄（しゆうがいしよう）》の記事や各種京中図などにより，その種類や所在地が知られる。平安末期以降，官衙の衰退にともない諸司厨町も有名無実化し，多くは民有地化したが，中には室町時代でも官有地として維持され，そこからの地子収入が当代の公家にとって看過できない収入源となったものもあれば，生産や運搬などに関係のあった官衙の厨町の場合，居住者が座を形成して活躍したものもある。

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