imibe-uji

Updated: May 12, 2025

In early days, when religious rites and administrative functions were not differentiated, articles needed for both purposes were kept in the same store, under the charge of the Imibe-uji. In Yuryaku's time a third treasury had to be added, owing to greatly increased production of textile fabrics and other manufactures.

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