The term jitō (literally meaning `land head`) began to be used in the late Heian period as an adjectival word like `local`. For example, a jitō person (地頭人) meant an influential local. Later, the term was sometimes used for persons who managed each local manor. Modern historians cannot clarify the character of the early jitō appointed...
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[period] The Jitō period is a chronological timeframe during the Asuka period of Japanese history. The Jitō period describes a span of years which were considered to have begun in the 1347th year of the Yamato dynasty. This periodization is congruent with the reign of Empress Jitō, which is traditionally considered to have been from 686 ...
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A lower-level official charged with the collection of taxes and the enforcement of laws on an estate level. The jito, created by the Kamakura Bakufu, answered to the SHUGO.
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