- 筑前国嶋郡川辺里大宝二年戸籍断簡、紙背千部法華経校帳断簡
- 1 hanging scroll
- Ink on paper Black ruled lines Hanging scroll Obverse: Ink on paper
- H 27.0, L 64.4; 2 sheets
- Asuka period/Taihō 2 (702), reverse side Tenpyō 20 (748)
- Nara National Museum
- 871(書34)
Household registers recording the members of each household were updated every six years to serve as the basis for taxation , military conscription, and state-administered land allotment. This is part of a household register for Kawanobe Village in Shima District in Chikuzen Province in Taihō 2 (702). It is one of the oldest extant household registers and was originally preserved in the Shōsō-in Repository.
One name is written per line, and each family member is listed in order of blood relationship. The total allotment of land is written at the end of each household listed. The official seal of Chikuzen Province is stamped over the characters and the seams on the back of the paper. An orderly Chinese calligraphic style from the Six Dynasties period (220–589) was used.
Kawanobe Village in Shima District in Chikuzen Province is thought to be near the present-day city of Itoshima in Fukuoka Prefecture on the Itoshima Peninsula overlooking the Genkai Sea, and was where the administrative seat for Shima District was located.
Part of a List of Proofreaders for a Thousand Copies of the Lotus Sutra produced in Tenpyō 20 (748) is on the back of the household register, indicating the back of the paper was recycled by the scriptorium after the household register on the front no longer needed to be retained.
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