Name book - Myomoto

Japanese: 名本 - みょうもと

A historical term from the Middle Ages. It is also called miyo-oya. In the late Middle Ages, with the collapse of manors, it refers to a person who was responsible for the honenkin and public duties (honyaku) that were called kubo nenko. Miyo was originally a unit of taxation for manors and was organized as a collection of certain pieces of cultivated land, but around the 16th century, as in "This field is given to us by the head of the Jiroemon family as a free field, and there is no small honyaku" (December 26, 1254, Oka no Ama joint sale ticket), the rights to the cultivated land under miyo-oya in the area were actively bought and sold, and land was concentrated in the hands of a certain class of landowners.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中世の歴史用語。名親（みようおや）ともいう。中世後期，荘園の崩壊にともない，公方（くぼう）年貢といわれる本年貢･公事の負担(本役)を負った荘園年貢負担者をいう。名は本来荘園の年貢･公事の徴税単位であり，一定の耕地片の集合体として編成されたが，16世紀ごろ例えば，〈此田地ハ抜地として親ニて候次郎衛門跡より譲候，本役少も有るまじく候〉(弘治元年12月26日，おかのあま等連署売券)などとあるように，在地で名編成下にある耕地片の土地の権利が盛んに売買･譲渡され，一部の地主層への土地集積がみられた。

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