Compensation - Aikyu

A form of chigyo (landholding) in the Edo period. It is also called bunkyu, bungo, aichi, and iriai chigyo. It is the opposite of ichien shoryō (landholding) and ichien chigyo (landholding), and refers to a chigyo or land in which one village is divided and controlled by multiple feudal lords. It was called nikyu, sankyu, or yonkyu depending on the number of feudal lords. Since the Tokugawa clan entered the Kanto region in 1590 (Tensho 18), the principle of allocating land to hatamoto (directors of the Shogunate), feudal domain, and hatamoto domain in Shimotsuke Province (Tochigi Prefecture) is that one village has 20 kyu. In addition, the principle of allocating land to the feudal domain vassals and the noble domain is that the Owari village in Bizen Province (Okayama Prefecture) in the Okayama domain is divided into 26 kyu, and the Kisshoin village in Yamashiro Province (Kyoto Prefecture) in the noble domain is divided into 64 kyu.

[Akira Kanzaki]

"Kanagawa Prefecture History, General History, Volume 2, Early Modern Period, Volume 1" (1981, Kanagawa Prefecture)

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江戸時代の知行(ちぎょう)形態。分給、分郷、相知(あいち)、入会(いりあい)知行ともいう。一円所領、一円知行に対するもので、一村が複数の領主に分割支配された知行またはその土地をいう。領主の数で二給とか三給、四給とよんだ。徳川氏は1590年（天正18）関東入国当初から旗本への所領宛行(あておこない)は相給を原則とし、下野(しもつけ)国（栃木県）には幕領、藩領、旗本領で一村が20給という村もある。また、諸藩家臣の知行地や公家(くげ)領も相給知行が原則で、岡山藩領備前(びぜん)国（岡山県）尾張(おわり)村には26給、公家領山城(やましろ)国（京都府）吉祥院(きっしょういん)村は64給に分割されている。

［神﨑彰利］

『『神奈川県史　通史編 2　近世 1』（1981・神奈川県）』

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