Goseibai Shikimoku (Jōei Shikimoku)

Timeline

1. 1232Kamakura · KamakuraHōjō Yasutoki and the Hyōjōshū compiled gokenin customary law into the fifty-one-article Shikimoku, to fairly adjudicate the surge in land disputes after the Jōkyū War and to proclaim leniency toward former enemies.
2. 1232–1333Kamakura · KamakuraThe Shikimoku became the adjudication guide of the Hyōjō, later supplemented by supplementary laws; its force applied mainly to the gokenin class, and it recognized that the imperial court had a separate administrative system.
3. 1336–1868Kyoto–Kamakura warrior law tradition · JapanThe Muromachi shogunate continued to treat the Shikimoku as fundamental law; in the Edo period it was largely superseded by new shogunal laws, but its provisions continued to be used as a copybook in terakoya schools until the Meiji legal reforms.