Naizenshi - Naizenshi

Under the Ritsuryo system, this was an office under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Household Ministry that was responsible for cooking the Emperor's meals. Two Buzen (chief officials) of the rank of Shorokui were in charge of testing for poison. The office consisted of six Tenzen (councillors) responsible for cooking, one Sakan (councillor), 40 Kashiwade (cooks), 10 Tsukai (messages), one Jikicho (director), and 20 Kushicho (envoys). When anyone other than Takahashi or Azumi was the chief official, they were called Naizen no Kami (chief official) rather than Buzen. Based on the inscriptions on wooden tablets unearthed at the Heijo Palace ruins and ink-written earthenware at the Dairi Moridokoro (place where the Imperial Palace is kept), the location of the Naizen-no-kami during the Nara period is estimated to have been to the north of the Imperial Palace area.

[Jiro Iwamoto]

"Heijo Palace Excavation Report VII" (1976), edited and published by the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties

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令制下、宮内省(くないしょう)の管轄で天皇の食膳の調理を担当した役所。正六位(しょうろくい)の奉膳(ぶぜん)（長官）2人が毒味を担当。調理責任者たる典膳(てんぜん)6人、令史(さかん)1人、調理をする膳部(かしわで)40人、使部(つかい)10人、直丁(じきちょう)1人、駈使丁(くしちょう)20人が所属した。高橋・安曇(あずみ)両氏以外が長官のときは奉膳ではなく、内膳正(ないぜんのかみ)と称した。奈良時代の内膳司の位置は、平城宮跡の出土木簡の記載内容と「内裏盛所(だいりもりどころ)」の墨書土器から、内裏地区の北側と推定されている。

［岩本次郎］

『奈良国立文化財研究所編・刊『平城宮発掘調査報告Ⅶ』（1976）』

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