Tomono Sozen - Tomono Sozen

Japanese: 友野宗善 - ともの・そうぜん

Year of birth: Year of birth and death unknown. A wealthy merchant and head of Sunpu (Shizuoka city) in the early Edo period. The Tomono clan, along with the Matsuki clan, were townspeople who had been purveyors to Sunpu since the Imagawa clan era. Munezen's name was Jirobei no jo, and he was active from this time through the time when Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu was in Sunpu. When Ieyasu ruled Sunpu as Shogun, he carried out town divisions, and Munezen actively cooperated with this and gained his trust. In Sunpu, he came into contact with Ieyasu as a townsperson and head of the townspeople. Special concessions were given to Sunpu townspeople, and in 1609, the Nagasaki Itowarifu Nakama granted him a patent to distribute raw silk to Sunpu, and while they served the Shogun, they also played a role in extracting large concessions. His descendants were called Tomono Yozaemon for generations, and served as town elders. <References> "Shinfudoki of Sunpu Province," "Draft Shizuoka City History Compilation Materials" (held at Shizuoka Prefectural Central Library), "Shizuoka City History" Early Modern Period, Nakata Yasunao "Research on the History of Early Modern Foreign Relations"

(Yasunao Nakata)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
江戸前期の駿府(静岡市)の頭人豪商。友野氏は松木氏と共に,今川氏時代からの駿府の御用達町人。宗善は名を次郎兵衛尉といい,このころから,大御所徳川家康の駿府在城時代にかけて活躍。家康は大御所として駿府を支配した折,町割を実施したが,宗善はこれに積極的に協力し,信頼を得た。駿府では町方頭人として松木氏と共に家康と接触。駿府町人に対しては特別の利権が与えられたが,慶長14(1609)年長崎の糸割符仲間より,駿府に生糸の配分を特許され,大御所に奉仕する反面大きな利権を引き出すなどの役割を果たした。子孫は代々友野与左衛門を称し,町年寄を務めた。<参考文献>『駿府国新風土記』,「稿本静岡市史編纂資料」(静岡県中央図書館蔵),『静岡市史』近世,中田易直『近世対外関係史の研究』

(中田易直)

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