LEADER 04040nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910450197503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8047-6386-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804763868 035 $a(CKB)1000000000004483 035 $a(OCoLC)70769317 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary2004326 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000281241 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11219431 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000281241 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10300879 035 $a(PQKB)11222055 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3037384 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3037384 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr2004326 035 $a(OCoLC)923699442 035 $a(DE-B1597)582345 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804763868 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000004483 100 $a19971216d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLand and lordship in early modern Japan$b[electronic resource] /$fMark Ravina 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStandford University Press$d1999 215 $a1 online resource (294 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8047-2898-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-269) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tContents -- $tTables and Figures -- $tMaps -- $tAbbreviations -- $tA Note to the Reader -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 Land and Lordship: Ideology and Political Practice in Early Modern Japan -- $t2 The Nerves of the State: The Political Economy of Daimyo Rule -- $t3 Profit and Propriety: Political Economy in Yonezawa -- $t4 Land and Labor: Political Economy in Hirosaki -- $t5 Markets and Mercantilism: Political Economy in Tokushima -- $tConclusion -- $tAppendix -- $tGlossary -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aExamining 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. 606 $aHISTORY / Asia / Japan$2bisacsh 607 $aJapan$xPolitics and government$y1600-1868 607 $aYonezawa-han (Japan)$xPolitics and government 607 $aTokushima-han (Japan)$xPolitics and government 607 $aHirosaki-han (Japan)$xPolitics and government 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aHISTORY / Asia / Japan. 676 $a952/.025 700 $aRavina$b Mark$f1961-$0907006 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450197503321 996 $aLand and lordship in early modern Japan$92028860 997 $aUNINA