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Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan (Hardcover)
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Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan (Hardcover)
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Examining local politics in three Japanese domains (Yonezawa,
Tokushima, and Hirosaki), this book shows how warlords (daimyo) and
their samurai adapted the theory and practice of warrior rule to
the peacetime challenges of demographic change and rapid economic
growth in the mid-Tokugawa period.
The author has a dual purpose. The first is to examine the impact
of shogunate/domain relations on warlord legitimacy. Although the
shogunate had supreme power in foreign and military affairs, it
left much of civil law in the hands of warlords. In this civil
realm, Japan resembled a federal union (or "compound state"), with
the warlords as semi-independent sovereigns, rather than a unified
kingdom with the shogunate as sovereign. The warlords were thus
both vassals of the shogun and independent lords. In the process of
his analysis, the author puts forward a new theory of warlord
legitimacy in order to explain the persistence of their autonomy in
civil affairs.
The second purpose is to examine the quantitative dimension of
warlord rule. Daimyo, the author argues, struggled against both
economic and demographic pressures. It is in these struggles that
domains manifested most clearly their autonomy, developing
distinctive regional solutions to the problems of
protoindustrialization and peasant depopulation. In formulating
strategies to promote and control economic growth and to increase
the peasant population, domains drew heavily on their claims to
semisovereign authority and developed policies that anticipated
practices of the Meiji state.
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