Draft lease for rice fields; 1908

Description

Title Proper	Draft lease for rice fields; 1908
Date(s)	1908
General material designation	This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content	This item is a farming (lease for rice fields) contract (Kosau) draft letter. It is dated: Meiji 41, 1908. There are three sections for the farmers’(Kosakunin) signatures. It is written for Senjiro Tonomura.
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.

Structure

Repository	Nikkei National Museum
Fonds	Tonomura Family collection
Series	Family records
File	Draft Documentation; Lease Agreement, Passport Application, 1908, 1897.

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Title

Draft lease for rice fields; 1908

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