Omagasaki - Omagasaki

Japanese: 大間書 - おおまがき

Also called "Oma." In the Heian period, this document was used at the Imperial Court during the ceremony for the appointment of officials, listing the names of the officials to be appointed. When listing the officials, the lines for those who were not appointed were left blank, and the space was filled in appropriately after the appointment, hence the name. Most were written in scrolls, and when the appointment was to be made, the minister writing the scroll would turn the scroll in front of the Emperor, read out the names of the people to be appointed, and add them one by one. When the scroll was finished, the date was written at the back, and after the Emperor had reviewed it, it was reprinted and handed over to the Shokei. In the Kamakura period, when a territory was divided into several people, the territory to be transferred and the names of the people to receive it were written in a single transfer letter, with the front and back blank. This was called Omajo because it resembled the Omasho.

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Japanese:

「大間」ともいう。平安時代，朝廷において任官の儀式のとき，任ずべき官と人名を書並べた文書。諸官を書連ねる際，闕官の行はあけておき，任官後その空間に，しかるべく追記したことからこの名がある。多くは巻物になっており，除目 (じもく) のとき，天皇の前で執筆の大臣がこれを繰り，任ずべき人々の名前を読み上げて順次書き加え，終るとその奥に月日を記入，天皇の奏覧を経て，これを清書し上卿 (しょうけい) に渡した。鎌倉時代には，所領を数人に分譲する場合，譲るべき所領と，これを受ける人名とを1通の譲状に書並べ，その前後を空白にした。これが大間書に似ているところから大間状と呼んだ。

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