Nenki-uri _??__??__??_ was a common legal practice in Japan both in the medieval and the modern times. In the medieval age,
Nenki-uri meant sales of a certain property or properties for a limited period of time. But in the modern times (roughly 16-19 century), the word came to be used to denote pledge or
Honzeni-gaeshi _??__??__??_ (conditional sale for redemption), according to the theory now commonly accepted. But all of the
Nenki-uri practices and similar customs were not pledge or conditional sale for redemption.
In
Akabadani of the
Okukumano district, there was a legal practice called "
Nempu-uri _??__??__??_."It was a kind of sales of woodland. The property right was transferred for a limited period of time called "
Nempu", which was usually about 60 years or the time required for a young tree to grow up. After the term expires, the woodland was automatically returned to the former owner (
konushi _??__??_). The practice of
Nempu-uri cannot be interpreted as lease of land, pledge, conditional sale for redemption or
Uwatsuchiuri _??__??__??_ which derived from the concept of divided domain.
Nempu-uri should be literally interpreted as sales of land for a limited period of time. It was a kind of
Nenki-uri in the original or the medieval sense of the word.
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