Everyday People in Early Modern Kyoto

Family, Firm and Community
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-47310-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 737 g

This social history explores the lives of urban commoners in early modern Kyoto during the dramatic political shift from famine to revolution in the final decades of the Tokugawa regime, through an extensive survey of the detailed record changes from 1843 in response to these crises.

The study focuses on three aspects of urban life, beginning with individual and household relations with the neighborhood communities that comprised the institutional framework of urban administration and provided financial and legal resources for residents. It then moves to the lives of ordinary people, taking a life-course approach to analyze life-cycle work: marriage, divorce, blended families, fertility, adoption, migration, mobility, and mortality. The final theme discusses households people lived in, headship succession and devolution of property; family business as a network of household shops and workshops; and the roles women played, while testing the patriarchy theories commonly used in this field and finding new explanations.

Written for all levels of expertise and including many stories of everyday people, this book will appeal to undergraduate students and general readers interested in historical Kyoto.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nagata, Mary Louise

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part 1: The Neighborhood Communities  Introduction to Part 1. Narrative 1: Fukui Sakuzaemon and the Kyoto Measures Guild 1. An Era of Crisis 2. City and Neighborhood Administration. Narrative 2: Tsutaya Mohachi, Pillar of Kankiji Neighborhood 3. Property Relations, Family and Community.Part 2: Population and the Life Course  Introduction to Part 2 4. Paths to Marriage and to the City. Narrative 3: Hoteiya Gohei’s Blended Family 5. Fertility and Adoption. Narrative 4: The Household of Omiya Seibei 6. Was Kyoto an Urban Graveyard?: Mortality, Mobility, and Population Change  Part 3: Household and Family Practice  Introduction to Part 3 7. Married Men and Household Structure. Narrative 5: Yamatoya Kane’s Lawsuit: Just Because I’m a Woman! 8. Headship, Succession and Household Division. Narrative 6: Kondaya Nihei: Headship Succession and Devolution of Property 9. Gender and the Family Business Network. Conclusion: Everyday People in Early Modern Kyoto

Über Autor(innen)

Mary Louise Nagata is Professor Emeritus of History at Francis Marion University, associate member of EHESS/CRH, and co-editor of Continuity and Change. She is the author of Labor Contracts and Labor Relations in Early Modern Central Japan (2005) and numerous articles.