<Articles>Aspects of the Landholding System during the Goryeo Dynasty

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  • <論説>高麗時代における土地所有の諸相
  • 高麗時代における土地所有の諸相
  • コウライ ジダイ ニ オケル トチ ショユウ ノ ショソウ

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During the Goryeo Dynasty government officials and soldiers were allocated lands of various sizes from which taxes were collected. These lands were composed of cultivable fields operated by officials and soldiers themselves and those of peasants. Cultivable land was allotted by the central government in principle, but in reality inheritance of land from father to son, i.e., the existence of hereditary estates, was recognized, and right of private property was in fact established. Thus taxes on the tillable lands of the hereditary estates of government officials and soldiers were also understood as hereditary. Government officials and soldiers who inherited cultivable lands under the 'umbrella' of the right to collect taxes were able to accumulate wealth and stabilize their economic base fay more easily than other householders. Influential officials amassed cultivable lands though reclamation and plundering, and harbored poor and itinerant peasants on the land, thus forming what might be termed manors. The development of these manors was ostensibly inconsistent with the principle of state ownership of the land, but such development could not be thwarted by the "rank-land law" reformation in the last stage of the Goryeo Dynasty.

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  • 史林

    史林 87 (6), 749-780, 2004-11-01

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

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