Abstract

In the temple town of Ise-Yamada, in the early modern period, many temples owned land in addition to the onshi (low-ranking priest). Every temple had a manager or managers comprising the onshi, with the town community and the temple receiving the surplus of the temple’s profit. It can be said that the manager, like an onshi, managed the land indirectly.

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