A demonstrative research for the process to establish polyphyletic monetary circulations from the sixteenth to the seventeenth centuries Japan

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25770241
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Japanese history
• Research Institution: Chiba Keizai University
• Principal Investigator: Kawato Takashi 千葉経済大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (20456289)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 日本史 / 中世史 / 中近世移行期 / 貨幣史 / 地域通貨 / 日本経済史 / 近世史 / 流通史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research I proved the structure and transformation of monetary circulations from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Japan by collecting and analyzing historical articles about usages of currency.
Concretely, I collected articles written in diaries, documents and chronicles by court nobles and monks living around Kyoto, and I analyzed these ones. As a result, I proved several facts as follows: at the time people came to use gold and silver as currency frequently for payments of expensive goods such as Chinese ceramics in the latter half of the sixteenth century, and they were using silver mainly as currency in the end of the sixteenth century in Kyoto. I also analyzed articles about monetary usages in other regions in Japan. And then I proved that in a few regions in western Japan each orders of monetary circulations were autonomously structured and their each orders were distinct from ones of other regions in the former half of the seventeenth century.

Free Research Field

日本中世史