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disaster management and integr ated economy in early modern japan
The honourable shoya of Shiki has come to Kozatoko. In order to
ask that Sir Bunbee be consulted about marriage talks, Sir Tomizo
sent a messenger to welcome the horse sent.
Table 12.2: Relief workers
A network of kinship among the shoyas underpinned the support from
Shiki-gumi. Likewise, as revealed in Table 12.2, a relatively large number of
workers were sent from Imatomi village, where Yoshiuzu’s younger brother,
Tomosaburo was shoya. In addition to such family networks, moneylenders
called ginshi, such as Michida Jinbei of Tomioka and Shinzaemon of Taka-
hama (Shimura 1999, 191–246), donated money in times of disaster. Also,
the Michida family of Tomioka owned a vast area of property in Icchoda
village, which belonged to the Icchoda-gumi which neighboured the Ōe-
gumi. A great amount of relief goods were thus also sent from Icchoda vil-
lage. The Michida family’s property was located in the Katsura-gawa Riv-
er basin. The Katsura-gawa River joins the Icchoda-gawa River and flows
into the Yokaku Bay. Boats that departed from the Katsura-gawa River ba-
sin would go down the Katsura-gawa River and out to the sea via the Ichi-
machida-gawa River. Once they were out in the sea, they would turn west-
ward past Sakitsu village and Ōe village to the Amakusa Sea, where they
would go up the west coast of Amakusa to Takahama (Goto 1999). Hence,
such financial, land ownership and commercial networks would function
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The honourable shoya of Shiki has come to Kozatoko. In order to
ask that Sir Bunbee be consulted about marriage talks, Sir Tomizo
sent a messenger to welcome the horse sent.
Table 12.2: Relief workers
A network of kinship among the shoyas underpinned the support from
Shiki-gumi. Likewise, as revealed in Table 12.2, a relatively large number of
workers were sent from Imatomi village, where Yoshiuzu’s younger brother,
Tomosaburo was shoya. In addition to such family networks, moneylenders
called ginshi, such as Michida Jinbei of Tomioka and Shinzaemon of Taka-
hama (Shimura 1999, 191–246), donated money in times of disaster. Also,
the Michida family of Tomioka owned a vast area of property in Icchoda
village, which belonged to the Icchoda-gumi which neighboured the Ōe-
gumi. A great amount of relief goods were thus also sent from Icchoda vil-
lage. The Michida family’s property was located in the Katsura-gawa Riv-
er basin. The Katsura-gawa River joins the Icchoda-gawa River and flows
into the Yokaku Bay. Boats that departed from the Katsura-gawa River ba-
sin would go down the Katsura-gawa River and out to the sea via the Ichi-
machida-gawa River. Once they were out in the sea, they would turn west-
ward past Sakitsu village and Ōe village to the Amakusa Sea, where they
would go up the west coast of Amakusa to Takahama (Goto 1999). Hence,
such financial, land ownership and commercial networks would function
299
