A Study on the formative process of gigantic landowners in rice-monoproducing districts of Japan
Project/Area Number |
62510177
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Research Field |
Japanese history
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Research Institution | Kyoto Women's University |
Principal Investigator |
NAKAYAMA Kiyoshi Kyoto Women's University Literature, Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (30172472)
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Project Period (FY) |
1987 – 1989
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1989)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 1989: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
Fiscal Year 1988: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1987: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
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Keywords | rice-monoproducing districts / gigantic landowner / the type of the Edo era / the type of the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate / the type of the Meiji era / 土地集積 / 階層分化 / 割地制 / 藩財政 / 大地主 / 頚城地方 / 質地騒動 / 地主制 / 新潟県(蒲原地方, 頚城地方) / 巨大地主(千町歩地主) / 地主経営 |
Research Abstract |
As to the Japanese landownership, we can verify its characteristic features from concentrative existence of gigantic landowners in rice-monoproducing districts, especially in Niigata Prefecture. In the thirteenth year of Taisho, there were twenty-two gigantic landowners possessed of five hundred chobus or more in Japan ( except for Hokkaido and Okinawa ) and nine persons of them existed in Niigata. Most of them concentrated in the Kanbara and Kubiki plains, where have been forming vast paddy fields, and all their origins and formative processes dates back to the Edo era. By analyzing various processes of their land acquirement and accumulation, these landowners are classified into three types. 1. The type of the Edo era: They appeared from the Horeki period to the Tenmei and grew up gigantic landowners from the Kansei to the early Tenpo. 2.The type of the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate: They grew slowly until the early Tenpo and then became gigantic landowners. 3. The type of the Meiji era: They started to grow in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate and became gigantic landowners in the Meiji era. From these facts, we should correct the theories that gigantic landowners appeared through developments of new cultivated fields or they were not found in the Edo era yet.
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