Originally published by Allen & Unwin in 1930 this 3-volume collection brings together writings on the economic aspects of Japan's history. Covering the period from the 1600s until the 1920s this work offers the reader, not only an economic history of the Japanese, but also a social and political history. By explaining the realities of daily life during the periods covered, this collection allows the economic aspects to be fully appreciated.
Chapter I Conditions of Life in the Early Periods; Chapter II Reformation of Taika; Chapter III Japan in The Reign of the Emperor Tenchi when the Ascendency in Korea was Destroyed; Chapter IV Land System Prior to the Taika Reforms; Chapter V Land System in the Statutes of Taiho; Chapter VI The Period of Slave Economy; Chapter VII Nara Age; Chapter VIII Temples Establish a State Within the State; Chapter IX Early Phase of the Heian Dynasty; Chapter X The Age of the Manorial System; Chapter XI Decay of the Fujiwara Clan; Chapter XII Rise and Fall of Taira and Minamoto Clans; Chapter XIII The Shugo System of the Minamoto and the Hojo Regimes; Chapter XIV Jito System in Minamoto and Hojo Regimes; Chapter XV The Hojo Epoch; Chapter XVI Outline of the Ashikaga Epoch; Chapter XVII Foreign Trade in the Ashikaga Epoch Carried out by the Co-Operation of the Shogun, Temples, Great Lords, and Merchants; Chapter XVIII The Internal Hanseatic League in the Ashikaga Epoch; Chapter XIX The Ashikaga Epoch; Chapter XX The Arrival of the Portuguese; Chapter XXI Effect Upon Kyushu of the Portuguese Civilization; Chapter XXII The Fall of the Ashikaga Clan; Chapter XXIII Appearance of the Great Feudal Lords; Chapter XXIV Japanese Pirate Fleet Spread All Over the Orient; Chapter XXV Nobunaga the Destroyer; Chapter XXVI The Ports of Sakai and Hakata, etc; Chapter XXVII The Appearance of the Free City and the Free Port, and the Origin of Free Trade in the End of the Ashikaga Age; Chapter XXVIII Gold and Silver Coins in the Oda Age; Chapter XXIX Unification by Hideyoshi; Chapter XXX Distribution of Land in the Toyotomi Age; Chapter XXXI Land Surveying by Hideyoshi; Chapter XXXII Beginning of the Persecution of the Catholics; Chapter XXXIII The Invasion of Korea; Chapter XXXIV Japanese Expand Abroad; Chapter XXXV Foundation of the Tokugawa Family; Chapter XXXVI Beginning of the Edo Age; Chapter XXXVII Early Phase of the Tokugawa Age; Chapter XXXVIII Financial Basis of the Tokugawa Shogunate; Volume 2: Chapter XXXIX Power of Tokugawa Family Established; Chapter XL Unification of the Currency System of the Tokugawa Shogunate; Chapter XLI From the Slave System to the Wage System of Economics; Chapter XLII Persecution of Catholic Christianity; Chapter XLIII Catholic Rebellion in Shimabara; Chapter XLIV Foreign Trade and the Port of Nagasaki; Chapter XLV Age of Iyetsuna, the Fourth Tokugawa Shogun; Chapter XLVI The Luxurious Age of Genroku; Chapter XLVII Influence of Money in Kyoto and Osaka, of which the Political Power was very Jealous; Chapter XLVIII The Kamigata People and Their Economic Talents; Chapter XLIX Political Reform by a Scholar-Statesman and Consequent Reaction; Chapter L The Revenues and Expenditures of the Shogunate.—I; Chapter LI The Revenues and Expenditures of the Shogunate.—II; Chapter LII The Revenues and Expenditures of the Shogunate.—III; Chapter LIII Peaceful Progress in the Time of Yoshimune; Chapter LIV Foreign Trade and the Movement of Gold and Silver; Chapter LV The Double Standards Of Currency Of The Tokugawa Period; Chapter LVI The Gold and Silver Recoinage in Genbun Era; Chapter LVII Economic Feudalism; Chapter LVIII The Za System In The Tokugawa Period; Chapter LIX The Rise of the Tonya (Middleman); Chapter LX Appearance of the Tonya Association and Fellow-Traders’ Guild; Chapter LXI Decadence and Fall of the Tokumi Tonyas; Volume 3 The Appearance of English Ships; Chapter LXXIV The Later Period of Foreign Trade at Nagasaki; Chapter LXXV Frequent Debasement of Currency after the Eras of Bunkwa and Bunsei; Chapter LXXVI The Political Reform of Tempo; Chapter LXXVII Workmen’s Guilds in the Tokugawa Period; Chapter LXXVIII The Decline of the Tokugawa Shogunate After Commodore Perry’s Visits to These Shores; Chapter LXXIX The Questions of Currency After the Opening of Japan to Foreign Intercourse; Chapter LXXX From the Compromise Between the Imperial Court and the Shogunate to the Expedition Against Choshu; Chapter LXXXI The Fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Establishment of the Meiji Government; Chapter LXXXII The Land and Taxation System in Tokugawa Period; Chapter LXXXIII Agrarian Administration of the Tokugawa Shogunate; Chapter LXXXIV The Myomoku-Kin (Nominal Money) During the Tokugawa Age.
Biography
Yosaburo Takekoshi
