manor-holders

Updated: August 10, 2026

The recipients of these estates were appointed also to be their land-stewards, and thus there came into existence a new class of manor-holders, who were at once owners and jito, and who were designated shimpo-jito, or "newly appointed land-stewards," to distinguish them from the hompo-jito, or "originally appointed."

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