Fonds/Series
Tamon Yagura Monjo
Hierarchy
- Title
- Tamon Yagura Monjo
- Date
- 18th Century-20th Century
- Level of Description
- series
- Archival History
- Documents and records written by various offices of Tokugawa Shogunate. In Edo period, documents were stored behind Hyakunin-bansho and in Tamon-yagura at Hasuike, Oote, Kikyo and other gates within Edo Castle. These unsorted documents were handed over to Meiji government after Meiji Restoration. Of these historical documents and records, bound ones were sorted early and are registered in catalogs. In this title, documents and records started to be sorted beginning 1977 are classified as “Tabun-yagura” documents.
- Scope and Content
- Principal items are basic historical documents and records of vassal of theTokugawa Shogunate including documents related to inheritance of family (genealogical descriptions and requests for adopted sons), “Meisai Tanzaku” that are personal history statements, payment of rice stipend. Also included are records of Choshu Expeditions in 1864-66, translations of articles in English newspapers issued in Yokohama, and a large number of historical documents and records that symbolize the era at the end of Tokugawa Shogunate.
- Language
- Japanese
- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
- As file arrangement varies, based on paper size, file category, etc, they should be handled with care to prevent them from mixing with other documents .
https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/fonds/en/3682584
[Fonds/Series] "Tamon Yagura Monjo", National Archives of Japan Digital Archive, https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/fonds/en/3682584（accessed 2026-04-11）
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