Ryumon Sodo - Ryumon Sodo

Japanese: 竜門騒動 - りゅうもんそうどう

A peasant uprising to demand a reduction in taxes broke out in Ryumon-go (15 villages out of 21 villages in what is now Yoshino-cho, Yoshino-gun and Ouda-cho, Uda-gun) under the fief of Nakabo (former Nara magistrate) of Yoshino-gun, Yamato Province (3,500 koku). In 1818 (Bunsei 1), a small merchant from Hoso-toge, Nishitani-mura, and his associates gathered several hundred residents (14 villages) to protest against the tax increase, stormed into the magistrate's office of Hirao-mura, killed Hamajima Seibei, and then attacked the head village headman's house. Hamajima had summoned the village headmen from each village and was in the middle of entertaining them. He apparently ordered them to persuade the villagers. The commotion ended overnight, but the Nara Magistrate's Office's Yoriki arrested over 300 villagers and others and took them to Nara. They were all initially released, but about 1,000 villagers were summoned again for questioning, and the following year over 10 ringleaders were convicted.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

大和国吉野郡の旗本(前奈良奉行)中坊氏(3500石)の知行所竜門郷(現在の吉野郡吉野町と宇陀郡大宇陀町にわたる21村のうち15村)に起こった年貢減免強訴の百姓一揆。1818年(文政1)年貢増徴の非をとなえて西谷村細峠の小商人又兵衛らが住民数百人を呼集(14村)，平尾村の代官所に押しかけて浜島清兵衛を殺害，さらに大庄屋宅を襲った。浜島は各村庄屋を召して饗応の最中だった。村民の説得を命じたらしい。騒動は一夜で終わったが，奈良奉行所与力が出動して村民ら300人余を検挙，奈良に連行，いったん全員を釈放したが，改めて村民約1000名を召喚して取り調べ，首謀者10余名を翌年断罪した。

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