Ship's Head

Japanese: 船元 - ふなもと

Also written as "Funamoto." In the Edo period, this term refers to a fishing business owner who provided nets and fishing boats for net fishing and lining fishing. In contrast, the fishermen who were employed to work on board were called "Amiko," "Tsuriko," or "Funakata." In the case of the yellowtail platform net fishing in Fujinami, Fugeshi County, on the eastern coast of the Noto Peninsula (Ishikawa Prefecture), the upper and lower net groups operated two fishing grounds owned by all the peasants in a rotation every other year, and in each net group, peasants were allocated shares according to their holdings, and provided labor and assets in accordance with their holdings and received a share of the profits. However, as the peasants' stratification progressed, the shares were concentrated in the hands of a small group of o-taka-mochi who were also village officials, and the fishing grounds came to be run with their assets.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

〈船本〉とも書く。江戸時代，網漁，釣漁で網，漁船等を提供した漁業経営者をいう。これに対し雇われて乗り組む漁民を網子，釣子，船方などと呼んだ。能登半島東岸(石川県)鳳至（ふげし）郡藤波のブリ台網漁の場合，総百姓持の2漁場を上下両網組が隔年交替で操業，各網組ではそれぞれ持高に応じて持株の割当てをうけた百姓が，持株にしたがって労力，資力を提供し，収益の配分をうけるしくみであった。しかし百姓の階層分解が進むと，持株は村役人でもあった一部大高持層に集中，その資力で経営されるように変わる。

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