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281 Sources that state regional infanticide reputations, in chronological order. The list does not include bans and other government pronouncements that merely stated that a region’s own subjects killed their infants. Manabe Gen’itsu (Chūan), Hokuchiku zakkō (Kyoto, 1675): Chikugo. Seki Sokō, Jinkokuki (1701 ed.; the sixteenth-century original makes no mention of infanticide): Mutsu. Yusa Bokusai, Renseishō (Sendai, 1702 and 1719): Mutsu, especially its northern part (killing of twins). Nishikawa Joken, Hyakushō bukuro (Nagasaki, 1721): in the mountains. Matsuzaki Kataomi, Mado no susami (Tanba or Edo, 1724): Shōnai and Tōgoku (the East) in general. Habu Zen’emon, Yūminhen (Asō, 1737): Tōkai no hama (the Pacific coast); Kantō and Mutsu. Matsudaira Katasada, decree (Aizu, 1745): Aizu. Bukkai Tenchō, Fushi on’aishū (Shimotsuke-no-kuni Haga-gun Ii-mura, 1746): Kōzuke and Shimotsuke and from the border of Hitachi and Shimōsa all the way to Mutsu. Tani Mashio, Mitsugo no gi ontazune ni tsuki mōshiage tatematsuru kōjō oboe (1759) and Kingenjō (1759): Tosa. Hayashi Ryūō, Sendai kango (Sendai, 1764): Mutsu. Shogunal ban on infanticide (Edo, 1767): especially in Shimotsuke and Hitachi. Uesugi Yōzan, Seiji hoiku no satoshi (Yonezawa, 1771): Mutsu and Dewa. Twelve villagers in five villages in Shimotsuke-no-kuni Haga-gun, petition (1772): Shimotsuke. Nagakubo Sekisui, Sūjōdan (Mito, 1773): Hitachi. Nakane Zen’emon and Suzuki Han’emon, infanticide ban (Shirakawa, 1781): the peripheries of Mutsu. APPENDIX FIVE Regional Infanticide Reputations, According to Contemporary Statements Suzuki Hanbei, domain order (Echigo Takada, 1781): remote regions (hendochi) of Mutsu. Tsunematsu Jirōemon, Shusshōji yōiku kanben no oboe (Kagaminuma in Shirakawa, 1784): Mutsu, as opposed to Echigo. Hirota Yaemon, Shimazaki kafū den (Kōchi, 1785): Tosa. Inoue Shimei, Keizai jūniron (Okayama, 1787): Mutsu and, by implication, Hitachi, Shimotsuke, and Kōzuke. Ban Kōkei, Kinsei kijin den (Kinai, 1788): Kantō. Nakai Chikuzan, Sōbō kigen (Osaka, 1789): Hyūga, Mimasaka, Tōsui (the Eastern periphery). Suzuki Busuke, Kono atari no akufūzoku (Kurobane, 1789): an area of 40 or 50 leagues’ radius around Kurobane. Ebata Jirōemon, Ikushihen (Mito, 1791): Tōgoku. Fujita Yūkoku, Hikanteiki (stela inscription in Hiraiso, 1791): “the poor of Tōei” (the East). Gen Senshi, Kosodatekusa (Hitachi, 1791): Azuma. [Jitsumeiin] Kōson, Kai Kantō jaken no to eiji shōsoku (Kyoto Nishi-Honganji, 1791): “certain provinces” of the Kantō. Tokugawa Harumori, order to the magistrates of Mito domain (Mito, 1791): Hitachi and Shimotsuke. Suzuki Sekkyō, Okusoku yojō (Kanuma in Shimotsuke, 1791): Kantō. Tachikawa Atsumi, Ikushikun (Mito, 1791): Tōgoku. Ueda Tōzō, proposal (Aizu, 1791): Mutsu, especially Aizu. Board of Temples and Shrines, injunction (Edo, 1792): five of the eight Kantō provinces. Forty-six villagers of Kameyama, oath (Shimotsuke-no-kuni Haga-gun, 1792): Shimotsuke, Hitachi, Shimōsa. Hayashizaki Shoin (the academy of Ise Shrine), Ikushihen batsu (Ise, 1793): “remote places” (henchi). Sakairi Juntoku, Ikushi kyōkabun (Southern Hitachi, 1793): Hitachi, Shimōsa, Kazusa, Mutsu, Shimotsuke, and Kōzuke. Taiken, Akago yōiku kanjin no hiki (Sendai, 1794): Azuma. Takahashi Gendō, Nōgyō shōni shikyōben (Sendai, 1794): Sendai or Mutsu (ambiguous). Akita domain, decree to Shimotsuke territories (Akita, 1797): Shimotsuke. Ōhara Sakingo, Hokuchi kigen (Edo, 1797): northeast of the capital (Edo), especially Mutsu and Dewa. Honda Toshiaki, Keisei hisaku (Edo, 1798): by implication, Kantō, Mutsu, and Dewa. Honda Toshiaki, Seiiki monogatari (Edo, 1798): most prevalent in the ten provinces of the Kantō and the Northeast; customary in the provinces east of Hakonet ōge; to a lesser extent practiced in secret in Kamigata, Chūgoku, and Saigoku. Kansuke and the headmen of another ninety-six villages in Mimasaka and Bitchū, petition (1798): Mimasaka and Bitchū. Satō Kōzui, Go-kyōyu engi (Sendai, 1798): Mutsu. Hayakawa Masatoshi, Kuze jōkyō (Kuze in Mimasaka, 1799): Mimasaka. Hirose Ten, Keisatsushi (Shirakawa, 1790s): Shimotsuke and/or Kōzuke (ambiguous), Mutsu. Matsudaira Sadanobu, Fukyō jōyaku (Edo, ca. 1790s): Mutsu, Shimotsuke, and (ambiguous) Kōzuke. 282 APPENDIX 5 Infanticide Reputations 283 Uezaki Kuhachirō, Sensaku zasshū (Edo, 1801): Kantō and Okusuji (that is, Mutsu). Umebori Kokuga, Kinoene yawa (Edo, 1801): Mutsu, Hitachi. Sakai Tadaakira, printed infanticide ban (Isesaki, 1802): Kōzuke. Anonymous, Asanetarō (1805): Fukuoka. Karasuyama domain, Kyōka no furegaki (Karasuyama, 1807): Shimotsuke and neighboring provinces. Tomita Tokufū, Takaoka tōwa (Takaoka in Etchū, 1807): Mutsu. Komiyama Fūken and Suzuki Taihan, Tokujun iji (Mito, 1808): Hitachi, Shimotsuke, Kōzuke, and Mutsu. Onuki Banchi, Nōka shōkeishō (Onuki in Shimotsuke, 1808): Shimotsuke. Anonymous, R...

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