Minamata Tenaga Mategata Shin Shiohama, Tomode Hidariya Ishigaki Rangui Deki Ezu (水俣手永馬刀潟新塩浜, 塘手左屋石垣乱杭出来繪圖) 1667

Old map of Japan, Minamata, Shi.

• Pictorial map.
• Minamata salt evaporation fields map.
• Manuscript: Watercolors and title by ink.
• Selected buildings shown pictorially.
• Map shows salt fields surrounded by Minamata River, the land surrounded by newly-formed stone walls and wall piles; shows huts, shrine "Shiogama Daimyōjin," local government office buildings; some individual names, onwer's names are written on pieces of paper and pasted on base map.
• Title on verso.
• Place name, Mategata inferred from "Higo kokushi"; It was the sea between Hama-mura and Marushima early in the Edo era, but reclaimed lands of Mategata area was developed land for salt fields.
• Wikipedia, July 25, 2019, Tenaga system; The administrative system that the Hosokawa of the daimyō (later Higo Kumamoto feudal lord) introduced the Tenaga system into the territory in the Edo era.
• "This most attractive map depicts the salt evaporation fields at Minamata in Kumamoto Prefecture. At the time this map was prepared, the traditional, and extremely labor-intensive, "agehama" method of extracting salt from sea water was still being used. In this map, the salt fields are located next to the ocean, separated by man-made embankments... map depicts the salt fields at Minamata, each individually owned (with owners' names). We see the houses of each salt-making family (all are labelled with the families' names) and the huts that contain the boiling cauldrons of sea water (with smoke from each wafting into the distance). A "shiogama daimyojin" (a shrine) is next to the salt fields. A local government office building is off to the side. On the verso of the map is an old pasted label stating, "Minamata tenaga, shin shiohama" ("Minamata new salt fields"). Today, salt making by the "agehama" process takes place at only one location in Japan: the Okunoto salt farm on the Noto Peninsula."--Seller's website.
• Date inferred from "Kumamoto kyōdoshi nenpyō" (page 39), "寬政 9年 (1797年) 水俣手永に馬刀潟塩田 19町 9反余を築立した" (Mategata salt farm has established in Minamata Tenaga area in 1797); Date also inferred from "Fukami-ke monjo" "寬文 7年第二代惣庄屋頼秋の時代に水俣海辺の馬刀潟に新地を見立て四十間塘, 百間塘を築いて、田畑二十八町余と塩浜十七町九反余を作ったとされる...中略" (in 1667, established salt farm in Mategata along Minamata Shore).

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