This paper is a study based on the management of Giso in Fukuyama Domain. It examines how three sets of people—feudal lords, influential people in the domain, and the local community members—dealt with sustainable reproduction within the local community. This study also explains how such relationships were established by considering the village as a contractor. The structure of this paper is as follows. In the first half of the paper, we clarify how Giso was managed as a resource of relief by asset maintenance while dependent on the murauke system. Therefore, Giso provided large assets, without spot saving. In the latter part of the paper, we explain the significance that the three sets of people—feudal lords, influential people in the domain, and local community members—had in relation to Giso relief by reviewing business content. To conclude the paper, we offer a perspective of modern society through theoretical research about the effect of the demolition of the murauke system. Giso was established through the cooperation of the Fukuyama Domain. It stored large assets by using the murauke system, and these assets were used as various business resources. However, the price of using the murauke system was that the beneficiaries of the project included the feudal lords. Funding Giso to benefit the feudal lords was not compatible with funding Giso to benefit the local community members. Moreover, such expenditure could not be reduced. These are some of the facts that were clarified by this paper. In conclusion, the historical significance of Giso was that Fukuyama Domain was able to replenish personnel expenses and people’s welfare, influential people in the domain could fulfill the persistent demands of their families, and the local community received funds from Giso as a price for providing for the murauke system.
