General and Trans-temporal Methods for Studying Large-scale Military Household Documents From the Medieval to the Early Modern Period: Documents of the Masuda Family

对军家文献的研究大多集中在中世纪或近代早期的特定领域。然而，在我们的研究项目中，我们使用了更为一般和跨时间的方法，接近了来自Hagi-han的世袭首席家臣Masuda家族的18,000多份历史文献和记录。首先，我们已经完成了广泛的Masuda家族历史记录的目录并将其主要部分数字化。我们还研究了相关的Masuda家族以及来自Chfigoku地区的其他军人家庭，作为比较的基础。这样的比较使我们更好地了解了正田家族史料的特点，更好地透视了史料与田野实际发生的关系，也使我们能够更深入地了解Hagi-han与德川政府的关系，行政和财政改革的过程，以及家臣对领地的管理。此外，我们还将大量的Masuda家族田野图画文件数字化。Masuda家族文件的完整目录附在这份研究项目报告之后，供公众使用。使用。这些数字化文件已放在东京大学史学研究所网站的中世纪部分供公众使用。早期现代时期的部分计划在不久的将来向公众开放。我们相信，该项目的研究成果将被科研人员广泛应用。

Most research on military household documents has focused on specific areas in either the medieval or the early modern periods. In our research project, however, we approached the more than18,000historical documents and records from the Masuda family, a hereditary chief retainer (karei) of the Hagi-han, with a much more general and trans-temporal methodology.To begin with, we have completed the catalog of the expansive Masuda family historical records and digitized the major portions. We have also researched about the relevant Masuda family clans as well as other military families from the Chfigoku area as a basis for comparison. Such comparisons allowed us to understand better the characteristics of the Masuda family historical records, and we gained a better perspective on the relationship between the historical documents and the actual happenings in the fiefs.We were also able to gain insight to the relationship between the Hagi-han and the Tokugawa government, the process of administrative and financial reforms, and the retainers' management of the fiefs. In addition, we have digitized the large number of pictorial documents of the Masuda family's fiefs.A completed catalog of the Masuda family's documents is appended to this research project report for pubic. use. The digitized documents have been placed on the medieval period section of the Historiographical Institute of Tokyo University website for public use. The early modern period portion is scheduled to be opened to the public in the near future. We are confident that the research outcome of this project will be widely used by researchers.