Tokugawa Japan the Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan

TOKUGAWA JAPAN
The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan
Edited by Chie Nakane and Shinzabur6 Oishi
Translation edited by

Conrad Totman

UNIVERSITY O F TOKYO PRESS

Contents

....................................vii Foreword CONRAD TOTMAN Introduction CHIENAKANE .................................... 3
1. The Bakuhan System

S H I N Z A B OISHI.................. 1 1 UR~

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SAT^ 2 . Tokugawa Villages and Agriculture TSUNEO

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37

3. The Development of Rural Industry SATORU NAKAMURA .........................................81 4 . Urban Networks and Information Networks KATSUHISA MORIYA ........................................ 97 5 . The Spatial Structure of Edo

HIDENOBU A I JINN

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6 . The Management Practices of Family Business Y ~ T ASR ~ U ........................................... 147 AK D~ 7. The Common People and Painting T A T S U AKAI R ~ ....... 167

8. Kabuki and Its Social Background

MASAKATSU ... 192 GUNJI

.......................... 213 9. Tokugawa Society CHIENAKANE
Historical Dates: A Chronology ............................... 232 An Equivalency Chart ......................................... 233 Contributors .................................................... 234 Index ........................................................... 235

Chapter One

The Bakuhan System

The epoch known as early modern society is one stage in a general divides Japanese history into ancient, nd modern eras. It covers the three Oda Nobunaga, aspiring to unify the country, entered Kyoto, home of the emperor and the Ashikaga shogun, to 1867 when the Tokugawa bakufu fell. Specifically, the 265 years after 1603, when Tokugawa Ieyasu established the bakufu, or military government, in Edo, are referred to as the Tokugawa or Edo period. In other words, early modern society encompasses the thirty-five years