Silla Register

Japanese: 新羅帳籍 - しらぎちょうせき

This document, which records the general conditions of villages during the Unified Silla period in Korea, was discovered in the Shosoin Repository in Japan in 1933. It is also known as the "Silla Village Documents." It is thought to have been created in 755 or 815. It is a fragment of a survey record created once every three years, and records the current conditions of four villages that are thought to have existed near present-day Cheongju in North Chungcheong Province. The contents include the village name, village area, number of households, number of cattle and horses, cultivated land area, and number of trees such as mulberry trees, and also includes details on increases and decreases over the past three years, except for cultivated land area. This shows that the villages at that time were small, natural villages with around 10 households and a total population of around 100 people.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

朝鮮，統一新羅時代の村落の概況を記録した文書で，1933年に日本の正倉院で発見された。〈新羅村落文書〉などともいう。755年もしくは815年の作成と思われる。3年に1度作成された調査記録の断片であり，現在の忠清北道清州付近に存在したと思われる4ヵ村の現状を記録している。記載内容は村名，村域，戸口数，牛馬数，耕地面積，桑などの樹木数であり，耕地面積を除いて過去3年間の増減も詳細に記載されている。これによって，当時の村落が10戸前後，人口総数100名前後の小さな自然村落であったことがわかる。

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