myōshu

Japanese society

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In Japan: Samurai groups and farming villages
…statuses among the peasantry, including myōshu, prominent farmers with taxable, named fields (myōden) of significant size and long standing; small cultivators with precarious and shifting tenures; and others who paid only labor services to the proprietor or jitō. These groups, while distinct from one another, were also quite separate from…
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In Japan: The growth of local autonomy
…middle and small landlords, or myōshu, proceeded apace and often led to uprisings against absentee control. Such confederations appeared where farming by the larger myōshu had dissolved and middle and small myōshu had established themselves on a wide scale. These smaller landlords endeavored to defend themselves against the ravages of…
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