Documents of the Samurai

Japanese: 武家様文書 - ぶけようもんじょ

After the establishment of the Kamakura Shogunate, documents in a style created by the samurai government or samurai families, or improved on documents used by nobles. The Kamakura Shogunate first used documents used by nobles, such as kudashibumi and migyosho, and then created a new style of gechijo, a letter of instruction, that could be called a hybrid of the two. These three styles, shimbun, migyosho, and migyosho, all in the form of hosho, became the main documents issued by the Kamakura Shogunate. The migyosho and migyosho issued by the Shogunate were signed by both the regent and the cosigner, and were called Kanto migyosho and Kanto gechijo, while those issued by the Rokuhara Tandai were signed by both the northern and southern tandai, and were called Rokuhara migyosho and Rokuhara gechijo.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

鎌倉幕府成立以後，武家政権あるいは武家が新しく生み出したり，公家（くげ）様文書を改良して用いた様式の文書。鎌倉幕府ははじめ公家様文書の下文（くだしぶみ）と御教書（みぎようしよ）を利用し，ついでその2様式の折衷ともいうべき様式で，これまでにない下知状（げちじよう）を生み出した。いずれも奉書（ほうしよ）形式であるこの下文，御教書，下知状の3様式が鎌倉幕府の中心的な発給文書となった。幕府から発する御教書，下知状は執権と連署がともに署して，関東御教書，関東下知状と称され，六波羅探題が発するものは南北両探題が連署して，六波羅御教書，六波羅下知状とよばれた。

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