Rental agreement, rice fields, 1908.

Rental agreement, rice fields, 1908.

Description

Title Proper Rental agreement, rice fields, 1908.
Date(s) 1908
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This item is a receipt for a rental agreement for Senjiro Tonumura to lease some rice fields. It is dated to Meiji 41 [1908], January 15. The receipt is stamped in black and red ink inkan (hanko).
Name of creator
The Tonomura family created these records.
Immediate source of acquisition
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.
This record was digitized in full.

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Rental agreement, rice fields, 1908.
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