人にん別べつ

noun

census-taking; population register

Historical term referring to the Edo-period practice of recording individuals in a community for administrative and religious purposes. Often associated with 人別帳 (にんべつちょう), the register itself.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには、寺てら請うけ制せい度どのもとで人にん別べつが行おこなわれた。

  In the Edo period, census-taking was carried out under the temple certification system.

• この村むらの人にん別べつ帳ちょうには、当とう時じの家か族ぞく構こう成せいが詳くわしく記しるされている。

  The village's population register records the family structures of that time in detail.