Consideration on the Local Disorganizing Process of Ryosei-Gun _??__??__??_(Political-Administrative District) in Ancient Japan

Abstract

Primarily Ryosei-gun _??__??__??_ had been established in the 7th century as a political administration unit in the Ritsuryo _??__??_ State or the Codes of Law and Ethics State of Ancient Japan. According to historical materials it is verified that about in the 10th century there had been brought on considerable change to this system. Having examinated its disintegrating transition on focus of the shiftinglocal aspects, the author tries to clarify the general rules of the features of the political administrative district as a historical region.
The conclusion is following:
1) Ryosei-Gun _??__??__??_ were often divided into two new smaller Gun _??_ in the 8th or 9th century. These newly born Gun consisted of the subordinate unit such as Go _??_.
2) In the 10th and 11th century, Ryosei-Gun _??__??__??_ were partitioned into several Gun _??_, Gô _??_, Jô _??_, In _??_, Agata _??_and so on. All of these local units similar to the Gun _??_unit were directly controlled by the Country Government (Kokuga _??__??_)and its subordinate unit, Go _??_itself also had been turned into small villages such as Go _??_, Mura _??_, Betsumyô _??__??_, Beppu _??__??_, Myô _??_ etc.
3) Thus it is explicable that, Ryosei-Gun _??__??__??_, separated from their administrative function, became only a local unit.