Andomochi - Andomochi

Japanese: 網度持 - あんどもち

Amido means a net place or net place, and probably refers to a net (standing net) fishing ground. Amido and amichi are also synonymous. Amido-mochi refers to the owner of a net fishing site, specifically the person with the right to profit from it. In the case of Izu Uchiura during the Edo period, amido often referred to the profit-making rights of half a net group (one of two large net groups). The amido-mochi has the profit-making rights (divided into a stock) and also pays the amido floating duties according to their share ("Mamezu Uchiura Fishermen's Materials"). In the case of Nishiura, Eri village had two amido sites, Seto and Raikaido, and four amido groups, each named after a tsumoto (a person who controlled the net fishing, often a descendant of the developer of the amido, a representative of the amido-mochi), would operate the two amido sites in two shifts (dividing the four net groups into two groups, east and west), and two amido groups would operate one amido site in one shift.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

網度とは網処，網所の意で，網(立網)漁場のことであろう。網戸，網地も同義か。網度持とは網漁場所持者のことで，具体的にはその収益権者のこととなる。江戸期，伊豆内浦の場合，網度とは，多く1網組の半単位(大網2帖のうち1帖)の収益権をさしている。網度持はその収益権(株化して分割される)をもつとともに，網戸浮役をその持分に応じて負担する(《豆州内浦漁民史料》)。西浦の場合，江梨村には瀬洞，来海洞の2網戸場があり，おのおの津元(網漁を支配する，多くは網戸の開発者の子孫，網戸持の代表者)の名を冠した4網組が漁期の間，2網戸場を2網組ずつ(4網組を東西2組に分ける)2日交替，1網戸場については2網組が1日交替で操業していたようである。

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