Moharaso - Moharanosho

Japanese: 藻原荘 - もはらのしょう

During the Heian period, this manor was located in Kazusa Province and was the property of Kofuku-ji Temple in Nara. The manor's name was inherited by Mobara-no-go during the Sengoku period and Mobara Village in the early modern period, and is identified with the area centered on the current Mobara city in Chiba Prefecture. Originally a pasture, it was owned by Fujiwara no Kuromaro, who became the governor of Kazusa Province in 777, but it was later opened up and became a manor, and was passed down to his descendants Harutsugu, Yoshinao, and Sugane. When Harutsugu died in 877, he had a tomb built in the manor, as he had lived there, and he willed that the tomb be donated to Kofuku-ji Temple for its long-term protection, but this was not done until 890 during the reign of Sugane. At that time, the size of the manor was 1,020 jo (about 3 km) from east to west and 487 jo (about 1.5 km) from north to south (Chono Gunzai). Around 1140, when Tachibana Manor in Kazusa Province was donated to Anrakujuin Temple in Kyoto, a dispute arose over the border between Tachibana Manor and Mobara Manor (Daigoji Documents).

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Japanese:

平安時代，上総(かずさ)国に置かれた奈良興福寺領の荘園。荘名は戦国期の藻原之郷，近世の茂原村に継承され，現在の千葉県茂原市街を中心とする一帯に比定される。もとは牧野で，777年上総国司となった藤原黒麻呂が領有していたが，のち開かれて荘園となり，子孫の春継・良尚・菅根と伝領された。877年春継はその死に際し，当荘に暮らしたこともあって荘内に墳墓を造らせ，その墓を末長く守るため興福寺に施入するよう遺言したが，それがなったのは890年菅根の代であった。当時の規模は東西1020丈（約３km）・南北487丈（約1.5km）に及ぶ（《朝野群載》）。1140年頃，上総国橘木(たちばな)荘が京都安楽寿院に寄進されるに際して藻原荘と境相論が起きている（《醍醐寺文書》）。

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