年貢(税)の取立てが厳しく生活が出来なくなった村人たちが、こっそりと村を抜け出し新たな生活を始める現象。これが｛夜逃げ｝の始まりと称される。居住地から無断で姿を消すことを当時、欠落(かけおち)と呼んだ。幕府はそんな欠落を阻止するために、人別帳(住民票)を作り村人を管理するのだが・・・村を抜け出す者が後を絶たない。幕府は罰則をさずけ、村人が村人を管理する「5人組制度」を発足させ強硬策に出るが、欠落の増加は収まらず幕府は頭を悩ませていた。そして数百年の時が流れ年貢は無くなり、税金という制度に変わったと同時に、サムライも日本から消えた。日本は新しい時代へと突入していくのだったのだが・・・・・。
 

（jōhatsu）

A phenomenon in which villagers who have become unable to live due to the strict collection of annual tax (tax) sneak out of the village and start a new life. This is called the beginning of {night escape yonige}. Disappearing from a place of residence without permission was 
kakeoti at the time.

In order to prevent such omissions, the shogunate creates jinbetsucho (residence records) and manages the villagers, but there is no end to those who escape from the village. The shogunate imposed penalties and launched a "five-person group system" in which villagers manage villagers, and took strong measures, but the increase in omissions did not stop and the shogunate was troubled. Hundreds of years later, the land tax disappeared, and at the same time the tax system changed, the samurai also disappeared from Japan. Japan was about to enter a new era.