A study of the development of professional law in early modern Japan

根据研究计划，我努力调查未发表的法律资料，以澄清近代早期日本专业法律的发展。在这个项目期间，我收集了超过5200张缩微胶片和缩微胶片的复印件，超过1000帧的数码照片，大约530张副本的手稿论文。我还在二手书店买了30多本江户和明治初期的印刷书籍或手稿。内容非常丰富，不仅有官方或私人编纂的法律书籍，还包括法律书记员准备并提交给上级的法律文件。整理分析这些资料的主要成果如下：(1)厘清了被认为是德川幕府最重要的法务人员——会务记录官（hyojoshoo - tomyaku -kanjokumigashira）和会务记录官（hyojoshoo - tomyaku - kanjokumigashu）的日常工作。(2)论述了判例法的发展和法务人员在德川幕府审讯程序中的作用。(3)论述了当事人在对抗性诉讼法庭内外的活动，他们的法律观念和权利观念。(4)利用收集的表格和草稿，阐明了大阪市知事厅的司法和法律实务的细节。(5)我澄清了议事厅、市知事厅、大阪府知事厅和其他远道知事厅的部分司法统计。其中一些结果已经在论文、公开讲座和研讨会上公布。《研究报告》载有载有司法统计数字的重要材料的四份副本。

According to the research plan, I made an effort to investigate unpublished legal materials that would clarify the development of professional law in early modern Japan. During the term of this project, I collected over 5,200 photocopies from microfilm and microfiche, over 1,000 frames of digital photographs, about 530 manuscript papers of duplicates. And I also purchased more than 30 printed books or manuscripts of Edo and early Meiji era at used bookstores. The contents are extremely various, including not only the law books compiled officially or privately, but also legal documents prepared and submitted to superiors by legal clerks. The main results achieved by arranging and analyzing those materials are as follows:(1) I clarified the routine works of hyojosho-tomeyaku (recording officer in the Conference Chamber) and hyojosho-tomeyaku-kanjokumigashira (the head of hyojosho-tomeyaku), who are considered to be the most important legal clerks of the Tokugawa Shogunate.(2) I argued the development of case law and the role of legal clerks in the inquisitorial procedure of Tokugawa Shogunate.(3) I argued the litigant's activities inside and outside of the court of adversary proceedings, their sense of law and conception of rights.(4) I clarified the detail of judicial and legal practice at Osaka-machibugyosho (the Osaka Town Magistrate's Office) by using collections of forms and drafts.(5) I clarified a part of the judicial statistics of Hyojosho (the Conference Chamber), Machi-bugyosho (Town Magistrate's Office), Osaka Machi-bugyosho and the other Ongoku-bugyosho (Magistrate's Office of Distant Provinces).Some of these results were already announced in essays, open lectures and a symposium. Four duplicates of the important materials with judicial statistics are contained in the Research Report.