Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan

Name: Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan
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ISBN: 9780520072039

ISBN-10: 0520072030

ISBN-13: 9780520072039

Edition: 1987

Authors: Stephen Vlastos

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The Japanese peasant has been thought of as an obedient and passive subject of the feudal ruling class. Yet Tokugawa villagers frequently engaged in unlawful and disruptive protests. Moreover, the frequency and intensity of the peasants' collective action increased markedly at the end of the Tokugawa period. Stephen Vlastos's examination of the changing patterns of peasant protest in the Fukushima area shows that peasant mobilization was restricted both ideologically and organizationally and that peasants did not become a prime moving force in the Meiji Restoration.

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/16/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English



List of Maps


List of Tables


Acknowledgments



Introduction


Conflict and Collective Action


Tokugawa Political Economy


Organization and Mobilization


Goals and Ideology


Collective Action and Violence



The Political Economy of Benevolence


Conflict over the Land Tax


Examples from Fukushima


Daimyo Bad and Good: Aizu in the Seventeenth Century



Collective Action in the First Half of the Tokugawa Period


The Minamiyama Direct-Appeal Movement


Direct-Appeal Movements: Possibilities and Expectations


Demonstrating in Force


Protests in the Mid-Tokugawa Period



New Causes of Conflict


Collection of Taxes in Kind


Revolt against the Village Headman


Economic Conflict in the Village



Sericulture and Village Economy in Shindatsu


Development of Silk Production


Technology and Economy of Scale


Sericulture and Peasant Economy



The 1866 Shindatsu Uprising


Poor Peasants Protest


The Uprising


Economic Background


Mobilization in the Late Tokugawa Period



Yonaoshi Uprisings in Aizu, 1868



Conclusion: Subsistence and Rebellion at the End of the Tokugawa Period


Bibliography


Index