Originally published in 1974, this volume deals with economic and
social change in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Japan, by
means of a case study of the cotton trade in Osaka and the
surrounding Kinai region. The development of the Osaka cotton trade
is studied to illustrate the growth of new kinds of commercial
institutions to regularize trading patterns and the changing
interaction between merchant groups and the Tokugawa bakufu. A
picture is presented of the changing interaction between urban and
rural merchants and the ability of cotton cultivating villages to
organize and contest urban merchant and governmental attempts to
limit their commercial activities. The result is a revised
interpretation of the effective coercive powers of the Tokugawa
bakufu with respect to socio-economic change. Evidence is offered
to illustrate the ability of urban and rural traders to assert
their own interests in opposition to Tokugawa efforts at economic
controls.
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