Mary Louise Nagata

Everyday People in Early Modern Kyoto (eBook, ePUB)

Family, Firm and Community

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040396452
• Artikelnr.: 74622680

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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