赤松 秀亮（Hideaki Akamatsu）- 日本中世史の研究者

赤松 秀亮（あかまつ ひであき）は、荘園・村落の歴史と景観の復原を専門とする日本中世史の研究者。早稲田大学で博士（文学）を取得し、別府大学で日本中世史や史料の読解に関する教育・研究に携わった。豊橋創造大学では経営学部の准教授を務めている。古文書に記された土地や人々の動きを、現地で確かめた地形・地名と照合し、地理情報システム（GIS）も活用して、荘園の制度と地域社会、自然環境の関係を探ってきた。2026年刊の単著『中世荘園空間と在地社会』では、東寺領播磨国矢野荘を中心に、大和国栄山寺領や美濃国大井荘などの事例を比較した。荘園の成立と領域の構成、土地の分割、在地荘官の活動を検討する一方、水害に伴う年貢の減免要求や旱魃にも目を向け、荘園制が中世の長い期間にわたって機能した仕組みを、空間構造と在地の秩序から考察した。同書は2026年度・第69回日経・経済図書文化賞を受賞した。

Hideaki Akamatsu is a historian of medieval Japan specializing in landed estates, village society, and the reconstruction of historical landscapes. He earned a doctorate in literature at Waseda University and taught medieval Japanese history and the interpretation of historical sources at Beppu University before serving as an associate professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at Toyohashi Sozo University. His research connects evidence from historical documents with landforms and place-names examined through fieldwork, using geographic information systems (GIS) to investigate relationships among estate institutions, local communities, and the natural environment. His Japanese-language monograph “Chusei Shoen Kukan to Zaichi Shakai” (2026) focuses on Yano estate in Harima Province, owned by Toji temple, while comparing estates including the holdings of Eizanji temple in Yamato and Oi estate in Mino. It examines estate formation, territorial organization, divisions of land, and the activities of local estate officials. Flood-related demands for reductions in annual dues and the effects of drought also form part of its analysis. By relating spatial organization to local social order, the book investigated how the estate system continued to function over the long course of the medieval period. It received the 69th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science in 2026.