Farmers' Network - Hyakushoami

Japanese: 百姓網 - ひゃくしょうあみ

Urakata peasants = fishermen, a form of net fishing management, not just a type of fishing net. In early modern fishing villages, just like in rural areas, the composition of the peasant status did not change, but the peasant nets seen in Uwajima Domain and Yoshida Domain were temporary net fishing management permitted to Urakata peasants who paid fishing taxes and other duties and occupied and used the fishing grounds off the village's lands, except for village officials who inherited the nets. Small net fishing was carried out by small fishermen in fishing villages who had weak rights to occupy and use the fishing grounds, and was operated as communal nets or village nets in the gaps between privileged net fishing in some of the common fishing grounds off the village lands that were also open to traveling nets.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

浦方百姓＝漁民による網漁の経営形態で，単なる漁網の種類ではない。近世の漁村では農村同様，百姓身分の構成に変りはないが，宇和島藩，吉田藩にみられる百姓網は漁業年貢，諸役を負担し，村の地先漁場を占有利用する浦方百姓のうち，網を世襲的に持っている村役人を除く他の漁民に，臨時的に許可された網漁経営である。それは，漁村にあって漁場占有利用権の弱い小漁民が行う小網漁で，旅網（たびあみ）にも開放された村地先の一部入会漁場で，特権的網漁の間隙に共同網，村網として操業された。

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