Goseibai Shikimoku

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Goseibai Shikimoku was a foundational legal code of Japan’s Kamakura shogunate that systematized warrior law and governance for the emerging samurai government.

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instanceOf Japanese legal code
Kamakura-period document
legal code
alsoKnownAs Joei Shikimoku
appliesTo gokenin
samurai
warrior class
country Japan
dateEnacted 1232
dateEnactedEraName Jōei 1
era Kamakura period
genre law code
government Kamakura period
surface form: Kamakura shogunate
hasCharacteristic case-law oriented
focused on landholding and service obligations
precedent-based
hasLaterAdditions supplementary articles in later Kamakura period
historicalSignificance first systematic codification of samurai law
foundation of medieval Japanese warrior governance
influenced Muromachi-period legal codes
Tokugawa legal thought
later medieval Japanese law
influencedBy customary warrior practices
precedent-based judgments of the shogunate
language Classical Japanese
legalStatus foundational code of the Kamakura shogunate
legalSystem Kamakura period
surface form: Kamakura shogunate
legalTradition warrior law
locationOfPromulgation Kamakura
namedAfterEra Jōei era
numberOfArticles 51
preservedIn medieval Japanese legal manuscripts
promulgatedBy Hōjō Yasutoki
Hōjō regency
purpose to regulate governance of the samurai government
to standardize judicial decisions
to systematize warrior law
regulates duties of vassals
judicial procedures of the shogunate
rights of landholders
subject administrative procedures
inheritance
land disputes
vassal-lord relations
timePeriod 13th century
usedBy Daijō-kan (Council of State of Japan)
surface form: Hyojoshu (Council of State)

shogunal courts

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