<Articles>The Formation and Evolution of Rokucho 六町

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  • <論説>「六町」の成立と展開
  • 「六町」の成立と展開
  • ロクチョウ ノ セイリツ ト テンカイ

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Rokucho 六町 is one of the neighbourhood corporation in medieval Kyoto. Though it has been well-known as a centre of the loyality to the imperial cause before the War and as a place of the cultural exchange between the falling nobility and the rising burgess after the War, even its fundamental outlines are not fully researched. This studyaims to investigate the formation and evolution of the Rokucho, by clarifying positively the conditions for the formation of the corporations and the steps of the evolution in the social relations between the corporations and the external world, based on the fact that the neighbourhood corporation was a territorial organisation of the town life. It was probably with the intention of gaining from Kinri 禁裏 the various privileges of exemptions in exchange for supplying it with the labour force which was requested in 1532 that the streets in the neighbourhood of Kinri formed Rokucho. With the mutual aid, the relation between Rokucho and Kinri became closer and closer, so that Rokucho came to be called Kinrisama-Rokucho 禁裏様六町 after the entry of Nobunaga 信長 into Kyoto. Then the security of Kinri was partially ensured by the labour force of Rokucho, while Rokucho was granted the privileges of exemtions from the billet, all corvées and Tokusei 徳政 by Kinri. Thus it became the only corporation in Kyoto that, though partially, was delivered from the lordship of the authority over the city. Afterward, Rokucho had to be dissoluted by the rearrangement of houses which was carried out by Hideyoshi 秀吉 for the building of the baronial residences. But its name, function and tradition were inherited by the other corporations--the newly formed Sinzaike-Rokucho-Cho 新在家六丁町--and became the matrix of the later Kinri-Rokucho-Gumi 禁裏六丁組.

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  • 史林

    史林 61 (5), 672-702, 1978-09-01

    THE SHIGAKU KENKYUKAI (The Society of Historical Research), Kyoto University

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