The Hawking Grounds of Feudal Retainers and Area : A Case Study on the Yokoi Family in the Owari Domain

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  • 藩士の鷹場と地域 : 尾張藩士横井家を事例に
  • ハンシ ノ タカバ ト チイキ : オワリ ハンシ ヨコイカ オ ジレイ ニ

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There is not much existing research on the relationship between the villagers’livelihood and hawking grounds. Therefore, in this paper, we examine this relationship through the case of the hawking grounds of the Yokoi family of the Owari clan (present-day Aisai city in Aichi prefecture). We study the circumstances under which hawking grounds were given to the Yokoi family, the effects of the period of mourning for feudal lords -such as the Yokoi –on hawk-hunting, as well as the relationship between the villagers’livelihood and hawking grounds. As a result, the following things became clear. Hunting on hawking grounds was forbidden or restricted for the general public, and it was the same for the Yokoi family as well. However, in reality, fishing and bird-hunting was allowed under certain conditions. Their main focus was securing the livelihood of the poor. Therefore, during the period of mourning upon the death of a feudal lord, the general public was allowed hunt earlier than the Yokoi family’s hunting period. Furthermore, hawking grounds can also be considered to have played a role in the livelihood of the local people by providing them with regular employment in making casting nets (uchiami) for the fishing activities of the lords. Maintaining the people’s livelihood was considered the first priority in the Yokoi hawking grounds. I concluded that such a sequence of policy should be caught as practice of a“osukui”act as Lord of the hawking grounds.

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