Budget Amount *help |
¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
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Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study used previously unanalyzed contemporary documents to determine the state of kimono cloth production and sales at kimono merchants during Japan's Edo period. The documents are from major kimono dealers in the Edo period. Specifically, this research asked the following questions, among others: (1) At what kind of sites were orders received, using what procedures? (2) What kind of account books, specifications documents, etc., were created? (3) What kind of workers performed what types of procedures? (4) What kind of diagrams, templates, working instruction documents, etc., for making clothing items, etc., were created? (5) After a clothing item was made, how was its price determined, and how were delivery, invoices (requests for payments), etc., performed? (6) What kind of documents were exchanged at times of delivery, request for payment, etc.? (7) For their records, what type of documents were kept by kimono merchants, or, what kinds of new documents were created?
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