2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Urban Socio-Historical Survey Research on Early Modern Osaka's Money Exchanger
| Project/Area Number |
23520855
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Japanese history
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| Research Institution | Osaka City Cultural Properties Association |
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Principal Investigator |
YAGI Shigeru 公益財団法人大阪市博物館協会(大阪文化財研究所、大阪歴史博物館、大阪市立美術館、, 大阪歴史博物館, 学芸員 (70311446)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 大坂 / 両替商 / 都市開発 / 銭屋佐兵衛 / 安井家文書 / 明礬 |
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| Research Abstract |
We gathered documents ralated to early mordern Osaka's exchange houses and wealthy merchant houses. Utilizing these documents, we conducted urban socio-historical research. Primarity, surveyed and analyzed documents from two exchange houses, the Zeni-ya(Itsumi) Sahei House in Ishibai-machi and the Chigusa-ya(Hirase) Sojuro House in Kajiki-mach. In our analysis, we examined not only the business operations of both Houses but also their internal structures (family, servants) and the social rerationships that they formed inside and outside of the cho of which they were part. Accordingly, our analysis focused largely on individuals. In addition, we elucidated the rore that wealthy merchants Yasui kuhei and Hirano Jirobei played in the development of the Dotonbori district. On the basis of that analysis. we surveyed seventeenth-century Osaka's urban development.
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