柏 339 Bezeklik Uigur administrative orders revisited Dai Matsui (Hirosaki, Japan) Introduction In 1980, Professor Geng Shimin published an article dealing with Uigur administrative orders discovered at the Bezeklik Caves, Turfan. He presented the Romanized texts, Chinese translations and philological commentaries with the photographic reproductions, pointing out that the Uigur orders concern the extraordinary official requisition for delivery of fodder and that they belong to the Mongol-Yuan period (the 13 th –14 th cc.). ① Umemura Hiroshi 梅村坦 and Kurban Weli 庫爾班=外力 successively followed him and presented their own editions with proposal of other readings and several modifications. ② I have been interested in those Uigur orders, which can be important historical source to reconstruct the taxes and labour systems in the Turfan region under the Mongol domination in comparison with other Uigur administrative orders that I have published. ③ As Umemura confirmed, the originals of the Uigur orders had been exhibited at the Turfan Museum until 1987 or 1988. ④ They were moved away from the exhibition to the archive in succeeding years, probably when the Turfan Museum was moved to the building on Gaochang Road. ⑤ I have visited the Turfan Museum several times since 2004, though I have not yet succeeded in actual observation of the originals. The most problematic is that their inventory numbers are unknown, to which none of the former scholars mentioned. Therefore, even the museum staffs cannot find the originals ① Geng 1980. ② Umemura 1981; Weli 1984. ③ Matsui 1998a; Matsui 1998b; Matsui 2002; Matsui 2003; Matsui 2006. ④ Umemura 1990a, 177; Umemura 1990b, 33. ⑤ The Turfan Museum is scheduled to be moved again to another building newly constructed on Beijing Nanlu Road. See their website: http://www.turfanological.com /article/ article.php?articleid =338