" Hossô-shiyôshô " is an important book from the viewpoint of the Japanese legal history, as it was a contemporary source of the Law of Kuge which had changed much from the the law of the previous period contained in the Ritsuryô Code. But there are two theories concerning the authorship of this book and it has not been determined which is the true author, either Sakanouye Akikane (1079-1147)or Sakanouye Akimoto (1138-1210). The present treatise aims at solving this problem.
As the result of the comparative study of some manuscripts of the " Hossô-shiyôshô " and the comparative study of contents of the " Hossô-shiyôshô " and of the " Saiban-shiyôshô, " the author of the latter being assuredly Sakanouye Akimoto, the present author came to the following conclusion:
The author of the " Hossô-shiyôshô " is not an individual person, thus neither Akimoto nor Akikane. The book is an accumulation of legal theories throughout the period from the end of XI century to XII century, and so several jurists were concerned in this compilation.
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