Fonds/Series
Shozan Bunsho: Burnt Records
Hierarchy
- Title
- Shozan Bunsho: Burnt Records
- Date
- 1839-1898
- Level of Description
- series
- Extent
- ５０件||50 items
- Creator
- Ministry of Finance Financial History Division
- Archival History
- In the second half of the 1960s, the Financial History Division put together under the name "Documents that escaped the flames" those of the documents kept by the Documents Division Records Section which were saved from burning during the Great Kanto Earthquake and materials taken over from tax offices and others after the earthquake and compiled their catalogues. The materials thus put together and organized are (1)documents that escaped the flames during the earthquake (Meiji period, 28 volumes), (2) Hansei Roku (clan system records; Meiji period, 15 volumes), (3) Government Bond Agency (Meiji period, 17 volumes), (4) materials related to salary decisions (Meiji period, 6 volumes), (5) miscellaneous materials (Meiji period, 11 volumes), (6) materials taken over from the Okinawa Tax Office (Edo period, 16 volumes), (7) materials taken over from the Okayama Tax Office (Edo period, 19 volumes), (8) public bonds (circular documents of the Finance Bureau, Taisho period, 39 volumes), (9) materials related to correspondence with overseas during the Taisho period (6 volumes). Of these, (2), (7), and (8) have been transferred.
- Source of Transfer or Acquisition
- Transferred from the Ministry of Finance in 1983
- Scope and Content
- Materials included in this unit consist of Hansei Roku (clan records), records taken over from the Okinawa Tax Office, and records taken over from the Okayama Tax Office.|br|Hansei Roku (Ministry of Finance records in the Meiji era, 1869-1871, 15 volumes) are statistical data on each Han (clan) containing data on the population and the number of households, products, salaries, taxation, etc.|br|Records taken over from the Okinawa Tax Office (Records related to Okinawa, Seven Izu Islands, 1873-1898, 16 volumes) include former customs such as "Makiri" system from the Ryukyu Kingdom era, local system reform drafts, and others.|br|Records taken over from the Okayama Tax Office (Bizen Fukuda records from the Tokugawa Shogunate period, 1830-1854, 19 volumes) include descriptions of various processes such as site investigations concerning the development of new rice fields in Kojima Bay and others.
- Conditions Governing Reproduction
- Image browsing is possible on the Internet
- Language
- Japanese
- Related Material
- Records of the Ministry of Finance in the prewar period, held in the National Archives of Japan, are also included in "Meiji Taisho Zaiseishi Hensan Shiryo (Records to Compile of the Financial History of the Meiji and Taisho Periods ) " and "Showa Zaiseishi Hensan Shiryo (Records to Compile of the Financial History of the Showa Period)." Some shozan bunsho (burnt records) are is also included in the record group "Shozan Bunsho (Burnt Records) " which was transferred from the Ministry of Finance following its transfer plan of 2009.
- Publication Note
- Tokuko Ohmori "Ministry of Finance Materials -- Trajectory of Collection/Arrangement/Storage of Administrative Documents --" Byblos vol. 34-2, February 1983
https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/fonds/en/3673785
[Fonds/Series] "Shozan Bunsho: Burnt Records", National Archives of Japan Digital Archive, https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/fonds/en/3673785（accessed 2026-06-07）
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