Sugegasaza - Sugegasaza

Japanese: 菅笠座 - すげがさざ

During the Muromachi period, a guild of merchants who sold sedge hats was in existence. The guild of sedge hat merchants in Fukae, Settsu, known as a producer of sedge hats, is well known and appears in the ancient Man'yoshu as "Naniwa sedge hats." The sedge hat merchants of Fukae had frequent access to Sakai, Tennoji, Kyoto and Yamashiro Province, Nara and Yamato Province, etc., and in these places they paid guild duties to the feudal lords they regarded as their honjo, forming guilds to monopolize sales rights in the area. A glimpse of this can be seen in the cases of Kyoto, Nara, and Yamato. Kyoto had a honza and a niiza, and the honza looked up to the head of the Fujiwara clan as its honjo, while the niiza looked up to the Nijo clan as its honjo, and were guaranteed a monopoly on sales rights.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

室町時代，菅笠を販売した商人の座。古く《万葉集》にも〈難波菅笠〉とみえ，菅笠の産地として知られた摂津深江の菅笠商人の座が著名である。深江の菅笠商人は，堺，天王寺，京都以下山城国，奈良以下大和国等に出入りし，それらの地で彼らが本所と仰ぐ領主に座公事を納入し，座を結んでその地域における販売権を独占していた。そのようすを垣間見ることができるのは，京都と奈良，大和の場合である。京都には本座と新座があり，本座は藤原氏氏長者を，新座は二条家をそれぞれ本所と仰いで販売権の独占を保障されていた。

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