The collection

A9.1 is comprised of seven groups of documents each wrapped up in newspaper or other material. These groups are held together with wrappers and string. On the wrappers and documents we find numbers Marega wrote on them for management purposes. In A9.1.1, etc. these numbers are only found on the wrapper and not individual documents. There are cases in which all documents in a group are assigned the same number.

A9.1 includes notifications sent from villages to the domain’s Office of Religious Affairs at the beginning of the eighteenth century, notifications of corpse examinations from villages during the second half of the eighteenth century, a death notification from the mid-seventeenth century, and correspondence relating to the office’s management (including domain residences in Edo and Osaka) (A9.1.2). One also finds a document relating to the carrying out of fumie (A9.1.3) and investigations into relatives of former Christians.