IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 1203: Documents and their Function, I: In Medieval Japan
Wednesday 13 July 2005, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Haskins Society |
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| Organiser: | Hirokazu Tsurushima, Faculty of Education, Kumamoto University |
| Moderator/Chair: | David Bates, School of History, University of East Anglia / Université de Caen Basse-Normandie |
| Paper 1203-a | 'TABUMI'and 'OHOTABUMI': Land Registers in Medieval Japan (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Economics - Rural, Law |
| Paper 1203-b | Keeping Records: Judicial Process and Recording System in Medieval Japan (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics, Law |
| Paper 1203-c | By-Laws: The Records of Legal Controls on Environment in Medieval Japan (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Economics - Rural, Law |
| Abstract | The purpose of this session is to give an academic introduce of three types of Japanese medieval documents to historians of the rest of the world. The first one is a sort of land-registers in the fourteenth century, which were described as ‘TABUMI’ and ‘OHOTABUMI’. ‘TABUMI’ means the letters of paddy field, and ‘OHOTABUMI’ means the great-letters of paddy field, made for original register for taxation. The Second one is the letter of decision in the law-courts from twelfth- to fourteenth century. The third and last one is by-laws in late-medieval (from fourteenth- to sixteenth century) Japan. NOTE: Please double-check if this falls within the remit of the IMC! Axel |