{"id":276,"date":"2018-08-07T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hyakugo.pref.kyoto.lg.jp\/wordpress_eng\/?p=276"},"modified":"2020-01-31T11:29:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T02:29:44","slug":"shopping-techniques-purchasing-egoma-perilla-seed-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyakugo.pref.kyoto.lg.jp\/eng\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Shopping techniques? \u2013 Purchasing Egoma (Perilla seed) oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A critical game or battle that may decide one\u2019s fate is sometimes referred to as \u201cTennozan (\u5929\u738b\u5c71)\u201d. \u201cTennozan\u201d is a mountain located in Oyamazaki-cho(\u5927\u5c71\u5d0e\u753a) in southern Kyoto Prefecture. Hashiba Hideyoshi (\u7fbd\u67f4\u79c0\u5409) and Akechi Mitsuhide (\u660e\u667a\u5149\u79c0) fought for this mountain in their battle of Yamazaki. Hideyoshi won this mountain, and that victory determined their destinies in the entire battle. This is why a critical game or battle is called \u201cTennozan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In Oyamazaki, where Tennozan is located, the production of Egoma (\u834f\u80e1\u9ebbPerilla seed) oil was prosperous. The origin of this product is believed to be traced back to the Heian period. Oil dealers were doing business around the Rikyu Hachimangu shrine (\u96e2\u5bae\u516b\u5e61\u5bae)&nbsp;at the foot of Tennozan, and later established a trade union called \u201cZa\u201d. The Oyamazaki Aburaza (lit. Oyamazaki Oil Trade Union) served Iwashimizu Hachimangu (\u77f3\u6e05\u6c34\u516b\u5e61\u5bae), the main shrine for Rikyu Hachimangu, which was located across the river, and cooperated in religious services and festivals, and finally acquired exclusive rights for the procurement of raw materials, production and marketing, in return for such services.<\/p>\n<p>The Egoma oil became a special product from this region, and was used for lighting lamps. It was not only delivered to Iwashimizu Hachimangu, but also marketed in Oyamazaki and in Kyoto. The Toji Hyakugo Archives records how the oil was traded:<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1658px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/contents\/detail.php?id=19287&amp;p=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/contents\/images\/053\/12497\/img\/0001\/100_0.jpg\" alt=\"Chinju Hachimangu Toyuryo Sokusan Yojo web page\" width=\"1658\" height=\"1323\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Item 97 of&nbsp;Box-HE (Hiragana), \u201cChinju Hachimangu Toyuryo Sokusan Yojo\u201d, dated May 12, 1458<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Look at the characters written in red. They say \u201c\u662f\u30cf\u5c71\u5d0e\u548c\u5e02\u5206\u3001\u4eac\u90fd\u4ee3\u516b\u8cab\u767e\u6587\u3001\u76f8\u9055\u5206\u4e00\u8cab\u4e8c\u767e\u4e94\u5341\u4e09\u6587\u201d. \u201c\u548c\u5e02\u201d means trading prices. The characters tell that, while oil cost 8 kan 100 mon in Kyoto, it could be bought at a price lower by 1 kan 253 mon in Yamazaki. The transportation fee from Oyamazaki to Kyoto may have been added to the oil price, or the oil was sold at a higher price in accordance with the price level in Kyoto. In the Muromachi period, when this document was written, 1 kanmon was equivalent to 100,000 to 150,000 yen in the present day. It seems to have been a good bargain.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1658px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/contents\/detail.php?id=19289&amp;p=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/contents\/images\/053\/12499\/img\/0001\/100_0.jpg\" alt=\"Chinju Hachimangu Toyuryo Sokusan Yojo web page\" width=\"1658\" height=\"1323\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Item 99 of Box-HE (Hiragana), \u201cChinju Hachimangu Toyuryo Sokusan Yojo\u201d, dated May, 1459<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are a few other documents that record trips to Oyamazaki for buying oil at prices lower than in Kyoto. See the ninth line from the end in the photo above. It is written \u201c\u5c71\u5d0e\u30cb\u30c6\u8cb7\u5206\u3001\u592b\u30c1\u30f3\u52a0\u5b9a\u201d. \u201c\u592b\u30c1\u30f3 (Buchin)\u201d means a fee paid to carriers. When oil was bought in Oyamazaki, carriers had to be hired for transportation to Toji. The term \u201cRijun (\u7406\u9806)\u201d, meaning profit, appears in many parts of the document, suggesting how people in those days racked their brain to reduce costs. It is interesting that life in those days had things in common to the present life.<\/p>\n<p>(Kaji, Materials Section, the Kyoto Institute Library and Archives)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A critical game or battle that may decide one\u2019s fate is sometimes referred to as \u201cTennozan (\u5929\u738b\u5c71)\u201d. \u201cTennozan\u201d is a mountain located in Oyamazaki-cho(\u5927\u5c71\u5d0e\u753a) in southern Kyoto Prefecture. Hashiba Hideyoshi (\u7fbd\u67f4\u79c0\u5409) and Akechi Mitsuhide (\u660e\u667a\u5149\u79c0) fought for this mountain in their battle of Yamazaki. 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