赤勝て白勝て運動会。40年前には予定されていた2020年の東京オリンピックまであとわずかですが。

4月 17, 2019

Tuesday, 7 May 2013

precedent

Naturally another lords of the eastern Japan had the same fate、but its correspondence was various.
　
For example、reduction of land tax rate.
　
"Pay taxes by money instead of payment in kind."
By the way、tax reduction was generally performed by the following method.

At this time、the price of rice was set lower than the market value.
They was subjected to tax cuts without lowering land tax rate by it.
※Does this mean that the farmers sell at the right price in the local market and the difference remains for them？　

They were reluctant to make a precedent.
　
"Reduction of land tax rate."
The Tokugawa era was era of "the precedent principle".
It may be lords(and their vassals) did not want to make a clear precedent like that.
　
Of course this was a first aid.

From this great famine until the Meiji restoration、population did not recover.
Such areas were also many.
　
・・・・・・・・・

Debt from large merchants、this case was many most.
And lords lost even the ability to pay interest on debt soon.
This also occurred frequently.
　
Then what happens？
　
They were not a company.
They were feudal lords.

※"Eat and beat."👈 Originally I wrote this.
Maybe I want to say "eat and run".※

Use a feudal lord's authority for evade paying their's debts.
Merchants who made large loans to lords、they went bankrupt.
　
Of course、debt of lords (as a root problem) did not disappear by it.
It was only lost the money for return the debt.

So lords looked for a new loan.

But of course they lost the trust from the merchant.
Conditions of the loan had become more and more severe.

Financial of lords became to further deteriorate.
　　
・・・・・・・・・

"Five years、please downgrading our duty to 10,000 goku.
Of course we will lower our actual income to that level.
We will pay the debt in its surplus.
And we will rebuild the lives of farmers."
Soma clan was submitted its petition to the Tokugawa Shogunate.

This was an action taken only by Soma clan among the clan nationwide.
This was breaking the precedent.
　
And the Tokugawa Shogunate had approved it.　

Wednesday, 8 May 2013

history

Rulers of 10,000 goku or more.
They had been defined as "the clan lord" by the Tokugawa regime.

Rulers of 10,000 goku or less.
They were defined as "vassal" of lords or the Tokugawa.

So lord of 10,000 goku was the lowest value of lords.
It obligations also had been kept low.

"Please downgrading our obligation to ten thousand."　
If it was a normal situation、Tokugawa would never admitted this petition.
Because there was a possibility that lead to the abandonment of the obligation of lords.

But the situation at this time was too emergency.
At this time、the Tokugawa Shogunate did aid 5000 ryou in only Soma clan.
(Ryou両 is a monetary unit、roughly $ 5,000,000？)
East was the same situation everywhere.
There was a limit to relief as the Government of Japan.

"We should not block the way of their self-help."
This concept had became dominate inside the Tokugawa Shogunate.　　

"A limited time."
They approved the petition in this condition.　
　
・・・・・・・・・

Also history of Soma clan might was acting on the positive.　
　
Small clan、many of them were originally chief vassals of the Tokugawa clan.
After Japan unified by the Tokugawa clan they became lords.
　

Large lords who survived the Warring States period.

※This may not be limited to them.

They branched clan、made a small clan in their territory.

"When the pedigree of the head family extinct、we welcome our lord from the branch."

This was done in this concept of feudal era.

(Scale is different、but Tokugawa clan also performed the branch.)

※Under the Tokugawa law、if the incumbent was dead and there was no successor、it clan was destroyed.

・・・・・・・・・

Including large lords and the Tokugawa clan、most of them were moved from their's home land in its history.

(Or they were destroyed in history.)

But Soma clan was the lord of their land from the 12th century.

(From the time of the samurai regime of the first.)　

※Their name and name of the land are the same.

I don't know now when they started calling themselves Soma.

In the first place、I think they came to give the name of the land to make a distinction within the same samurai clan(according to Shiba san's style、they are actually land reclamation farmers.).※

This was unusual.

(Satsuma clan also was likely.)

※I think that Shimazu was appointed as the lord of Satsuma by the Kamakura Shogunate(the first samurai regime).　

I don't know their origin now.※

They had been respected as a distinguished family.