| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
One of the purposes of the research was to clarify how people in early modern Japan faced and addressed uncontrollable inner nature: sex and reproduction. I wanted to know if there was any class difference in ways of coping with this issue. Examples were explored from both samurai and farmer classes to examine the relationship between men and women, the notion about the life of fetus and infants, life culture including methods of controlling sex and reproduction. I was curious to know if married couples and families in early modern Japan were conscious about “family planning” for the future of their families. The research revealed that folk remedies and diaries that people kept described contraception and other attempts of controlling sex and reproduction. In that it clearly indicates an initial sign of their consciousness for “family planning” which would assure them of the maintenance of the family lines.
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