Property Ownership and the Neighborhood Community in Early Modern Kyoto

What happened to property when the owner died without heir? This study uses the property transmission wills required by Kyoto neighborhoods, a register of property owners that follows the properties through multiple transmissions, documents of sale and lease, and a digitalized file pooling the annua...

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Main Author: Mary Louise Nagata
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Language:fra
Published: Centre de Recherches Historiques 2020-11-01
Series:L'Atelier du CRH
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/acrh/11757
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description What happened to property when the owner died without heir? This study uses the property transmission wills required by Kyoto neighborhoods, a register of property owners that follows the properties through multiple transmissions, documents of sale and lease, and a digitalized file pooling the annual population surveys for thirty neighborhoods between 1842 and 1869, to address this question. These documents and analyses demonstrate what happened to property transmission as a family ran out of heirs and the steps the neighborhood community took to prevent confusion and conflict over property ownership. The sixteenth century history of the rebuilding of Kyoto as an early modern city also reveals the basis for community claims of ownership.
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spelling doaj-art-9dd891ad31084af397ef0c2bb72f64ec2025-08-20T02:34:02ZfraCentre de Recherches HistoriquesL'Atelier du CRH1760-79142020-11-012210.4000/acrh.11757Property Ownership and the Neighborhood Community in Early Modern KyotoMary Louise NagataWhat happened to property when the owner died without heir? This study uses the property transmission wills required by Kyoto neighborhoods, a register of property owners that follows the properties through multiple transmissions, documents of sale and lease, and a digitalized file pooling the annual population surveys for thirty neighborhoods between 1842 and 1869, to address this question. These documents and analyses demonstrate what happened to property transmission as a family ran out of heirs and the steps the neighborhood community took to prevent confusion and conflict over property ownership. The sixteenth century history of the rebuilding of Kyoto as an early modern city also reveals the basis for community claims of ownership.https://journals.openedition.org/acrh/11757InheritanceLand RegisterProperty OwnershipLand WillsKyoto Neighborhoods
spellingShingle Mary Louise Nagata
Property Ownership and the Neighborhood Community in Early Modern Kyoto
L'Atelier du CRH
Inheritance
Land Register
Property Ownership
Land Wills
Kyoto Neighborhoods
title Property Ownership and the Neighborhood Community in Early Modern Kyoto
title_full Property Ownership and the Neighborhood Community in Early Modern Kyoto
title_fullStr Property Ownership and the Neighborhood Community in Early Modern Kyoto
title_full_unstemmed Property Ownership and the Neighborhood Community in Early Modern Kyoto
title_short Property Ownership and the Neighborhood Community in Early Modern Kyoto
title_sort property ownership and the neighborhood community in early modern kyoto
topic Inheritance
Land Register
Property Ownership
Land Wills
Kyoto Neighborhoods
url https://journals.openedition.org/acrh/11757
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