‘
Gôri-Sei(_??__??__??_)’is a system of local administrative division, enforced from 715 to 739-40 in the Nara era, and it consisted of two administrative divisions: ‘
Gô(_??_)’and ‘
Ri(_??_)’.Up to the present only historians had pursued after this system on their historical methods. So in this paper I tried to scrutinize it on a geographical method in making reference to following primary historical materials: ‘
Daizei-Sinkyû-Rekimei-Chô *in
Izumo Province(_??__??__??__??__??__??__??__??__??__??_)’, ‘
Daizei-Oi-Shibônin-Chô **in
Bicchû Province(_??__??__??__??__??__??__??__??__??__??_)’(both in A.D. 739), ‘
Izumo-no-Kuni-Fudoki ***(_??__??__??__??__??__??_)’(in A.D. 733), etc.
Scrutiny is carried out in the below mentioned process:
1. Presumption of the
Gô-areas in consulting documents, present names of places, etc.
2. Presumption of the unities of
Lebensräume at that time in each
Gô-areas in availing of materials such as documents, present names of places, topography, river systems, irrigation spheres of each river, remains in the
Kofun era, sites of the ‘
Shiki-Nai-Sha ****(_??__??__??_)’, etc.
3. Comparison between the unities of
Lebensräume and
Ris in each
Gô-areas.
Treating more than twenty cases on such method, I can clear up the four points.
1. In nearly all
Gô-areas, several unities of
Lebensräume are classified into two or three grades for their scales.
2. Unities of
Lebensräume with nearly same scale to
Gô-areas are recognized in a certain cases (Type A). On the other hand, there are not a few cases, where each unity of
Lebensraum corresponds to the approximately same scale of a
Ri (Type B).
3. In the case of Type B, especially when the name of place similar to the name of
Ri is found in the unity of
Lebensraum with approximately same scale to that
Ri, (Type B'), there is a fair possibility that the
Ri was organized basing on the unity of
Lebensraum. Yet even in such cases of Type B and Type B', I can hardly suppose that the
Ri was always organized basing on the unity of
Lebensraum.
4. In such a case as neither in Type B nor Type B', there presents very considerable possibility that the
Ri was organized almost indifferently from the unity of
Lebensraum in the same
Gô-area.
If the four above-mentioned points constitute nation-wide characteristic of the
Gôri-Sei at its enforcement, it is possible to develop further inference on the basis of the results which had been already achieved by historians. Although the
Gôri-Sei came in enforcement so that the government might rule over the ‘
Bôko(_??__??_)’, it had been unable to meet with the actual state of affairs at that time any more than the prior system, ‘
Ri-Sei(_??__??_)’ did. After a quarter of century, on the advent of new political situation, it was simply laid aside and the
Gô-Sei, a not so complicated system of local administrative division as the
Gôri-Sei, came close after it and kept on for hundreds of years.
* an official document, recorded at each administrative divisions about men, women, and children, who were provided with rice from the provincial government for their old age or some other reasons.
** an official document, recorded at each administrative divisions about farmers who borrowed rice from the provincial government and died without repaying.
*** ancient topographical document which the Izumo Provincial Government compiled with materials of its own territory after the order of the Central Government.
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