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東文研セミナー "Ottoman Wood" が開催されました
報告
2026年4月2日に、東文研セミナー "Ottoman Wood" が東洋文化研究所にて開催された。本セミナーでは、オスマン帝国における材木を研究する、パリ・シテ大学のオリヴィエ・ブケ氏と東京外国語大学の岩田和馬氏が報告し、議論が行われた。会場参加者は11名、オンラインでは12名が参加した。
第1報告者の岩田氏は、18世紀イスタンブルの材木商組合について、その組織の空間的な構造を考察することによって、オドゥンカプという場所が材木業のハブとなっていたことを明らかにした。第2報告者のブケ氏は、19世紀以前のオスマン帝国において材木の計量単位が多様であることについて、それが測る対象、用途、運搬の形態と関連していることを論じ、そして、計量単位の歴史は技術、労働、役畜などの歴史でもあることを示した。
両報告には、材木の加工場所、伐採の季節、材木運搬の動物の種類など、様々な質問が寄せられ、議論が展開した。
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開催情報
日時：2026年4月2日(木) 15:00〜17:45
会場：東京大学東洋文化研究所3階第1会議室／Zoom
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司会：秋葉淳（東洋文化研究所）
15:00〜15:05 司会挨拶
15:05〜16:10 岩田和馬（東京外国語大学）
"The Istanbul Timber Merchants’ Guild and Odunkapı in the Eighteenth Century: A Hub of Timber Distribution"
16:25〜17:30 オリヴィエ・ブケ（パリ・シテ大学）
"çeki or araba? Measuring Firewood Weights and Volumes (Ottoman Empire, 17th Century)"
17:30〜17:45 総合討論
報告要旨：
The Istanbul Timber Merchants’ Guild and Odunkapı in the Eighteenth Century: A Hub of Timber Distribution (Kazuma Iwata)
This paper reconceptualizes eighteenth-century Istanbul guilds (esnâf) by analyzing the timber merchants’ guild (keresteci esnâfı) as a spatially embedded organization. While Ottoman guilds have been studied primarily in terms of economic regulation or state–society relations, their configuration within urban space remains under-theorized. This paper argues that guild organization cannot be fully understood without reference to spatial concentration and urban anchoring. The case of the timber merchants’ guild shows that Odunkapı functioned not merely as a commercial district but as a nucleus of authority: a large proportion of merchants’ shops were located there, and guild wardens were disproportionately drawn from this area. At the same time, the guild exercised jurisdiction beyond the city walls and outside the Istanbul kazası, including Tophane and Üsküdar. This uneven spatial structure challenges the conventional model of horizontally organized guilds, suggesting instead that authority was grounded in control over key urban nodes.
çeki or araba ? Measuring Firewood Weights and Volumes (Ottoman Empire, 17th Century) (Olivier Bouquet)
Based on the principle that the best introduction to historical metrology consists of as accurate a knowledge as possible of a good at the time, the study focuses on one that has been little studied but was central to Ottoman life: firewood. It distinguishes between the units of weight and volume used, based on a cross-referencing of 17th-century accounting and legal sources concerning the capitals of Edirne and Istanbul. It establishes why the multiplicity of weights and capacities was linked to the requirements of intermodal transport. Beyond approaches focused on the inventory of measurement units, the search for synchronic equivalents in a context of great regional diversity, or the establishment of correspondences with the standardised metric system introduced in 1869, the study invites us to link metrology to a combined history of work, techniques and energies.
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登録日時：FriApr2409:28:492026
登録者 ：秋葉・神林
掲載期間：20260424 - 20260723
当日期間：20260402 - 20260402
