A sheet was lying at full length on eaves of some town house “machiya” in Kyoto city under the Tokugawa regime.
The name of this sheet is “Shoyakumenjofuda” or “Kishukumenkyofuda”. This paper aims to clarify the reason of this sheet hang out. The meaning of “Shoyakumenjofuda” is evidence board exemption from tax imposed on the machiya house.
And so “Kishukumenkyofuda” is evidence board exemption from obligation to receive guesuts imposed on the machiya house.
The Imperial court award town people who was in close connection, therefore feudal firemen hesitate to clime on this house roof, for scared the authority of Imperial court.
