The long-term trends in foreign trade and the domestic market expansion in pre-industrial Japan, ca. 1650-1850

• Project/Area Number: 19820055
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (Start-up)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Historical studies in general
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
• Principal Investigator: FUJITA Kayoko Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, アジア太平洋学部, 准教授 (90454983)
• Project Period (FY): 2007 – 2008
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2008)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,724,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥324,000); Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,404,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,080,000、Indirect Cost: ¥324,000); Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,320,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,320,000)
• Keywords: オランダ東インド会社 / イギリス東インド会社 / 唐船 / 銀 / 繊維製品 / 海産物 / 大坂市場 / 商品連鎖 / 貿易 / 工業化 / 国産化 / グローバル・ヒストリー / 海域アジア

Research Abstract

17 世紀半ば~19 世紀半ばまでのオランダによる長崎からの主要輸出入品の英文データベースを作成し、主要商品である金属の輸出(貨幣鋳造材料の銀および銅・金)と繊維製品の輸入(生糸・各種織物)の長期的なトレンドを分析した。そして最終的に繊維産業を中心とした近代日本の工業化成功の歴史的基盤の解明につなげるべく、近世のグローバルな経済ネットワークの中の日本貿易の位置づけと、海外貿易が国内社会経済に与えた影響とを検討した。

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Japan Indianised : The Material Culture of Imported Textiles in Japan, 1550-1850 (2009)
  • Author(s): Fujita, Kayoko
  • Journal Title: The Spinning World. A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850. Edited by Giorgio Riello and Prasannan Parthasarathi. (In Print)
• [Journal Article] The European Maritime Empires and Asian Commodity Flows:British and Dutch Trade Strategies in 17th-and 18th-Century East Asia from a Comparative Perspective". Proceedings of the Third Japanese-Korean Conference of British History (2008)
  • Author(s): Fujita, Kayoko
  • Journal Title: Region, Interchange and Culture in History.Japanese-Korean Forum for the Study of British History,et.al Pages: 77-93
• [Presentation] The Material Culture of Textiles in Tokugawa Japan and Choson Korea (2009)
  • Author(s): Fujita, Kayoko
  • Organizer: Global Arts : Exchange and Innovation of Visual and Material Culture Across the World, 1300-1800
  • Place of Presentation: the Venice Centre of Warwick University (Palazzo Pesaro Papafava), Venice, Italy
  • Year and Date: 2009-03-30
• [Presentation] The Material Culture of Imported Textiles in Tokugawa Japan and Choson Korea (2009)
  • Author(s): Fujita,Kayoko
  • Organizer: Global Exchange and Innovation of Visual and Material Culture Across the World, 1300 -1800
  • Place of Presentation: Venice Centre of Warwick University Venice, Italy
  • Year and Date: 2009-03-29
• [Presentation] The Socio-Cultural and Economic Impacts of Textile Imports : The Case of East Asia in the Long 18th Century (2009)
  • Author(s): Fujita, Kayoko
  • Organizer: Maritime Trade and Hinterland in Eighteenth Century Asia : Pre-Conference of the X Vth World Economic History Congress, Utrecht 2009
  • Place of Presentation: 淡路島・国際会議場「夢舞台」
  • Year and Date: 2009-03-02
• [Presentation] The European Maritime Empires and Asian Commodity Flows :British and Dutch Trade Strategies in 17th- and 18th-Century East Asia from a Comparative Perspective. The Third Japanese-Korean Conference of British History Region, Interchange and Culture in History (2008)
  • Author(s): Fujita, Kayoko
  • Organizer: Japanese-Korean Forum for the Study of British History, et.al
  • Place of Presentation: Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea
  • Year and Date: 2008-11-13
• [Book] Japan Indianised:The Material Culture of Imported Textiles in Japan, In The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, Pasold Studies in Textile History, ed..Giorgio Riello and Prasannan Parthasarathi (2009)
  • Author(s): Fujita,Kayoko
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press/Pasold Research Fund
• [Book] 『海域アジア史研究入門』 経済史から見た近世後期の海域アジア (2008)
  • Author(s): 桃木 至朗、藤田 加代子
  • Publisher: 岩波書店