“Diary of Masakiyo Mishima, Shogun's Vassal” is a fine historical text, wrote by one adopted Samurai, Masakiyo Natsume who was one of the cadences in Natsume Family, inherited Mishima Family even after Mishima Family suffering from lapse of the official heirship, which is called “Matsugo-youshi” in the inheritance process of Samurai class in the Edo Era. The diary covers the years of ending Edo Era up to the beginning of Meiji Era with very detailed descriptions in the form of time-series. Because Mishima Family was classified as one of middle-class clans of Shogun's Vassal, thus had a main manor (Kami-yashiki) as well as a sub manor (Shimo-yashiki), we can follow how he did with the manors stipulated by the conventions of that time on household, family system as well as estate, which were all impacted with the revolutionary changing happened with the collapse of Tokugawa-House (Tokugawa-Bakufu). We abstract several interesting issues from the architectural (or social scientific if we like to say broadly) point of view, and discuss on those.
抄録全体を表示