Everyday People in Early Modern Kyoto - Family, Firm and Community

This social history explores the lives of urban commoners in early modern Kyoto during the dramatic political shift from famine to revolution in the final decades of the Tokugawa regime, through an extensive survey of the detailed record changes from 1843 in response to these crises.

List of contents

Introduction Part 1: The Neighborhood Communities Introduction to Part 1. Narrative 1: Fukui Sakuzaemon and the Kyoto Measures Guild 1. An Era of Crisis 2. City and Neighborhood Administration. Narrative 2: Tsutaya Mohachi, Pillar of Kankiji Neighborhood 3. Property Relations, Family and Community .Part 2: Population and the Life Course Introduction to Part 2 4. Paths to Marriage and to the City. Narrative 3: Hoteiya Gohei's Blended Family 5. Fertility and Adoption. Narrative 4: The Household of Omiya Seibei 6. Was Kyoto an Urban Graveyard?: Mortality, Mobility, and Population Change Part 3: Household and Family Practice Introduction to Part 3 7. Married Men and Household Structure. Narrative 5: Yamatoya Kane's Lawsuit: Just Because I'm a Woman! 8. Headship, Succession and Household Division. Narrative 6: Kondaya Nihei: Headship Succession and Devolution of Property 9. Gender and the Family Business Network. Conclusion: Everyday People in Early Modern Kyoto

About the author

Mary Louise Nagata is Professor Emeritus of History at Francis Marion University, associate member of EHESS/CRH, and co-editor of Continuity and Change. She is the author of Labor Contracts and Labor Relations in Early Modern Central Japan (2005) and numerous articles.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Louise (Francis Marion University Nagata, Nagata Mary Louise
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 21.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032473130
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3247313-0
• No. of pages: 364
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Japan, Kyoto, HISTORY / General, Social & cultural history, Society & culture: general, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Regional Studies, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Regional / International studies, Asian History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Society and culture: general, History and Archaeology, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850