Ancient / Medieval Japan and Asia from the Perspective of Sulfur Trade
Project/Area Number |
23520847
|
Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
|
Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Japanese history
|
Research Institution | Kobe Women's University |
Principal Investigator |
|
Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
|
Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
|
Budget Amount *help |
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
|
Keywords | 硫黄 / 硫黄の道 / 火薬 / 火器 / 朝鮮 / 琉球 / 宋 / 明 / 日宋貿易 / 日元貿易 / 日明貿易 / 日朝貿易 / ジャワ島 |
Research Abstract |
The purposes of this study is to consider globally the historical change in trade patterns of sulfur, which in an indispensable ingredient of gunpowder, including Japanese sulfur, in 10th to 16th century Asia. As a result, it became clear that there was the monopolar trade structure in which large amount of sulfur flowed from Asia into China, which monopolized gunpowder and firearms technology, during the 10th to the 13th centuries. And during the 14th to the 16th centuries, the trade structure of sulfur largely changed from monopolar to multipolar one because of the breakdown of the monopoly of firearms technology by China and the spread of that technology to some parts of Asia.
|
Report
(4 results)
Research Products
(34 results)