Hagi Clan Clan Records

A collection of genealogies and ancient documents compiled by the Hagi (Choshu) Domain. It was compiled by Nagata Masazumi of the domain between 1720 (Kyoho 5) and 1726. It has 170 volumes and 1 catalogue. There is also the Hagi-han Bunyoku Iro, a collection of documents that were not included in the collection during the late Edo period, in 5 volumes and 15 books. The domain also had a collection of documents called Shoka Shomonsha compiled by Sugioka Narifusa in 1665 (Kanbun 5), but during the time of the fifth domain lord, Mori Yoshimoto, there was a growing trend to compile documents and genealogies covering the entire domain, and documents dating from the Middle Ages to the early modern period that had been handed down by the Mori clan and its subordinate samurai, old families that had returned to farming, and merchants were compiled. The editor, Nagata, is a renowned historian, who subjected each document to rigorous historical research and compiled them into the "Hapakuroku." The collected documents are concentrated in the Sengoku period to the early modern period, and many of them are valuable for studying the process by which the Sengoku daimyo Mori clan developed into a modern daimyo. In addition to being held at the Yamaguchi Prefectural Library, copies are also held at the Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo and other institutions. The collection was published in five volumes (including one volume that was missing) from 1967 to 1971 (Showa 42-46), and was reprinted in 1979.

[Hasegawa Seiichi]

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萩（長州）藩で編纂(へんさん)した系譜・古文書集。同藩の永田政純(ながたまさずみ)が1720年（享保5）から26年にかけて編纂した。170巻、目録1巻。ほかに、幕末期、収録に漏れた文書を集めた『萩藩閥閲録遺漏(いろう)』5巻15冊がある。同藩では1665年（寛文5）に杉岡就房(なりふさ)が編纂した文書集『諸家証文写』があったが、5代藩主毛利吉元(よしもと)の時期に至って、領内全体を対象とした文書・系譜の編纂気運が高まり、毛利氏の一門以下諸士、帰農した旧家、商家に伝来した、中世から近世に至る文書の編纂が行われた。編者の永田は歴史学者として名高く、各文書に厳密な考証を加え、「閥閲録」としてこれらを編集した。集録文書は、戦国期から近世初頭に集中し、戦国大名毛利氏の近世大名への発展過程を研究するうえで貴重な文書が多い。県立山口図書館のほか、写本は東京大学史料編纂所などに架蔵されている。1967～71年（昭和42～46）に5巻（遺漏1巻を含む）にまとめて刊行され、79年に復刻された。

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