Iijima Pass - Iijima Pass

Japanese: 飯島関 - いいじまのせき

A medieval checkpoint was established in Iijima along Zaimokuza Coast in Kamakura, Sagami Province. In 1232, Wakaejima was built as a port facility on the Iijima frontage by the monk O-Amidabutsu, and the area became the center of port and commerce in medieval Kamakura. Iijima Checkpoint may have been located on Wakaejima. The date of its establishment is unknown, but according to the Seigu Mondosho, written by Nichiren in 1262, Ninsho of Gokurakuji Temple "takes rice from the Mutsuura checkpoint up to the port of Iijima, and many people lament it." From Ninsho onwards, Gokurakuji Temple held the rights to the land and rice in Iijima until the Nanboku-cho period. In 1339, the Kamakura government notified Iijima Checkpoint that it would be exempt from tax on rice tax from Engakuji Temple land, as had been the case before.

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Japanese:

相模国鎌倉の材木座海岸沿いの飯島に設けられた中世の関所。1232年飯島の地先に勧進聖人往阿弥陀仏により，港湾施設として和賀江(わかえ)島が築かれ，以後当地一帯は中世鎌倉の港湾・商業の中心地となった。飯島関は，あるいは和賀江島に置かれたのであろう。設置時期は不明だが，1262年日蓮作という《聖愚問答鈔》によれば，極楽寺の忍性(にんしょう)が〈飯島ノ津マデ六浦ノ関米ヲ取ル，諸人ノ嘆キ是多シ〉とある。忍性以来南北朝期まで極楽寺が飯島の敷地や升米の権利を保有した。1339年には，先例通り円覚寺寺領からの年貢米の関銭を免除することが，鎌倉府から飯島関所に通達された。

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