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2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A study on life crisis state and memory of famine with a focus on the Tempo famine in Tohoku region

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 24520767
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Japanese history
Research InstitutionMiyagi Gakuin Women's University

Principal Investigator

KIKUCHI Isao  宮城学院女子大学, 学芸学部, 教授 (20186191)

Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Keywords天保の飢饉 / 非常態 / 仙台藩 / 秋田藩 / 八戸藩 / 備荒貯蓄 / 飢人救済 / 飢饉の記憶
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Tohoku district of Edo era experienced a big famine several times. Famine of Tempo is one of them. I mainly three of the clan (Sendai clan, Hachinohe clan, Akita clan) took up. In order to approach the reality of famine, about life difficult and life crisis of people under the famine, it was studied in detail. Specifically, it is rice price soaring, rice riot, escape, beggar, starvation, epidemic, and so on. In addition, I have also examined the memory and lessons of the famine.

Free Research Field

日本近世史・地方史(東北・北海道史)

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Published: 2016-06-03  

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