Iimuroza

Japanese: 飯室座 - いいむろざ

The name of a koji troupe that was active in Yamato during the Muromachi period. It was also called Goi-za because it was formed by residents of Goi-sho. Meimuro is another name for a greenhouse for warming koji, i.e., a koji room. Koji troupes were called by various names in medieval Yamato, including Uhan-za, which was named after the manufacturing method, and Meimuro-za is thought to be one of these names. The Meimuro-za had its headquarters in Daijo-in Temple of Kofuku-ji Temple, and competed with other koji troupes, including Daibutsu-ku-za, Uhan-za, Otogi-za, Takeuchi-za, and Kihara-za, for sales rights in the Yamato Basin.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

室町時代の大和で活躍した麴座（こうじざ）の名称。五位荘の住人が結成した座であるところから五位座とも呼ばれた。飯室とは麴を温めるための温室すなわち麴室の別名。麴座は中世の大和でさまざまな名称で呼ばれたが，その製造法にちなんだ名称としてはほかに温飯座（うはんざ）があり，飯室座もこの種の名称の一つと考えられる。飯室座は興福寺大乗院を本所とし，大仏供座，温飯座，乙木座，竹内座，木原座という他の麴座と，大和盆地における販売権を争っていた。

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