2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study on Financial Documents and Records of the Edo Bakufu
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18520512
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Japanese history
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| Research Institution | Toyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
OHNO Mizuo Toyo University, Institute of Human Sciences, Visiting Researcher Fellow (80000024)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2007
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| Keywords | Japanese History / Early Modern History / Economic History / Financial History / Edo Bakufu |
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| Research Abstract |
The historical documents concerning the finance of the Edo Bakufu were scattered and lost, we could use only small quantities of them. It was because the Meiji government didn't inherit these documents. On this account we use the documents edited by Katsu Kaish?, Mukouyama Seisai and ?ta Nampo, or discovered after World War II. However, these documents are decentralized data and are inconvenient in order that we research about the financial history of Edo Bakufu. To change such situation, the Head investigator in this research project surveyed most documents on this subject. We made the draft about this theme with the most trustworthy copytext, collated it with original texts, made an index and analyzed it from the paleographical perspective. The historical documents concerning finance of the Edo Bakufu were often prepared as reference data when the fiscal reform was performed in the Edo era. Therefore those documents as such reference materials tended to save for reserves in the house of the Daimyo who acted as a leader of the reform (the R?j? or Tair?). We checked these copies. So we examined the contents of all above documents closely and analyzed the characteristics of them and examined mutual relations among various texts. Furthermore, we tried to grasp structure of the whole documents systematically. Our main documents surveyed were the ?k?chi-ke Monjo in the National Institute of Japanese Literature, the Sakai-ke Kiroku in the Himeji Center for Research into Castles and Fortifications, the Hikone-han Ii-ke Monjo in the Hikone Castle Museum and so on. We compared these documents with what were already published, identified the persons on the documents, and made a critical reading, bibliographical note, chronological table and index. These results of our research are published as The Collection of the Financial Documents of the Edo Bakufu (2008) written and edited by Ohno Mizuo.
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Research Products
(6 results)
