page_title: Jōkyō uprising
section_title: Gimin-zuka burial mound
hierarchical_section_title: Jōkyō uprising / Gimin-zuka burial mound
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph taken of the burial mound of the "Joukyou Gimin", who were executed after the aborted appeal to the government. The incident has been called the Joukyou uprising(1686), or the Kasuke uprising.
context_page_description: The Jōkyō uprising, or the Kasuke uprising, was a large-scale peasant uprising that happened in 1686 in Azumidaira, Japan. Azumidaira at that time, was a part of the Matsumoto Domain under the control of the Tokugawa shogunate. The domain was ruled by the Mizuno clan at the time.
  Numerous incidents of peasant uprising have been recorded in the Edo period, and in many cases the leaders of the uprisings were executed afterward. Those executed leaders have been admired as Gimin, non-religious martyrs, with the most famous Gimin being the possibly fictitious Sakura Sōgorō. But the Jōkyō Uprising was unique in that not only the leaders of the uprising, but also a sixteen-year-old girl who had helped her father, "the deputy ringleader", were caught and executed. On top of that, the leaders of the uprising clearly recognized what was at stake. They realized that the real issue was abuse of rights within a feudal system. Because the newly raised tax level was equivalent to a 70% tax rate; an impossible rate. The Mizunos compiled Shimpu-tōki, an official record of the Matsumoto Domain about forty years after the uprising.
context_section_description: In 1950, at a construction site near Seitaka shrine in Matsumoto City, a human body was found.  In the next few weeks, additional bodies were found.  The number of the unearthed bodies came to eighteen.  Seventeen bodies were clustered, and one was found apart from the rest.  Four of the seventeen bodies were headless, which coincides with the story handed down by tradition.  And one of the seventeen clustered bodies had a larger pelvis and slender bones.  Taking these into consideration, historical and medical researchers of the time concluded that it was highly possible that the seventeen clustered bodies were those of the executed farmers of the Jōkyō Uprising. (The one with a larger pelvis must be Oshyun's body.  Oana Zembei's body was also easily identified by its long bones, because he had been known for being tall.)  In 1952, the bodies were buried in a mound, and the mound has been called Gimin-zuka.  Every year on the anniversary day  of the executions of the Gimin, a memorial service is held in front of the mound.
  Then questions arise as to the whereabouts of the bodies of the farmers who had been executed at Idegawa execution site.  It is widely believed that the eleven bodies have been washed away by river water, for the execution site was on the bank of the Tagawa river.  When Gimin-zuka was built, some soil from the former Idegawa execution site was used in the construction.
caption: The burial mound of the executed farmers
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