gonin-gumi

Updated: July 6, 2025

They consisted of five householders each, being therefore called gonin-gumi, and their main functions were to render mutual aid in all times of distress, and to see that there were no evasions of the taxes or violations of the law.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era