天保三辰年 十月 琉球人綱引人足帳 / Arrangement notes of boat tracking laborers for Ryukyuans, October, 1832, Year of the Dragon

This is a copy of a record of the Ryukyuan envoys' procession to Edo conducted in 1832. On the front cover are the notes "Hikae," "Torikai" and "Sangamaki." Torikai and Sangamaki are the names of villages. The Ryukyuan envoys traveled from Osaka to Fushimi by sailing up the Yodo River in kawa gozabune (river sailing boats), which were owned by the local Japanese daimyos (feudal lords). The tsunahiki ninsoku, laborers who tracked the boats with ropes from the both sides of the river, were gathered from the villages nearby. This material is a wariate-chō (an account book describing the set number of laborers required from each village) for those laborers. In this book, a copy of a wariate-chō, dated October, 1806, is included at the beginning.(Updated on September 30, 2015)