Structural Research on the Characteristics of Mountain Villages in Early Modern Awa: A Study Focusing on Occupation, Distribution, and Village Social Structure

本研究以近代阿瓦地区的山区为研究对象，考察了近代日本早期山村的职业结构和分布结构。它从当地历史的角度阐述了三个关键点：(1)山村所有权和占有权的实际情况，(2)山村社区发展起来的社会关系网络，(3)围绕山村生产的特定商品发展起来的分配结构。本研究以阿瓦的山林经营域制和山林分包制为研究对象，揭示了早期现代山林资源枯竭的状况。此外，它还展示了木材和其他森林资源是如何使用的，以及它们的使用方式在早期现代过程中是如何变化的。最后，通过对阿瓦山村与德岛和大阪城堡之间的关系的仔细考察，这项研究能够阐明早期现代阿瓦山村的一些不同的特征。

Focusing on the mountainous region of early modern Awa Domain, this study examines the structure of occupation and distribution in the mountain villages of early modern Japan. Working from a local historical perspective, it elucidates three key points: (1)the actual circumstances of ownership and occupation in mountain villages, (2)the network of social relationships that developed in mountain village communities, and (3) the distribution structure that developed around specific commodities produced in mountain villages. Focusing on the domainal system of mountain forest management and the sub-contracting system created to manage mountain forests in Awa, this study elucidated the state of resource exhaustion in early modern mountain forests. In addition, it demonstrates how timber and other forest resources were used and how their manner of use changed during the course of the early modern period. Lastly, through a careful examination of the rel ationships that developed between the mountain villages of Awa, on the one hand, and the castle towns of Tokushima and Osaka, on the other, this study was able to illuminate some of the diverse characteristics of early modern Awa's mountain villages.