Akira Shimizu

Specialty Food, Market Culture, and Daily Life in Early Modern Japan

Regulating and Deregulating the Market in Edo, 1780-1870

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study examines early modern Japanese society through the lens of food and foodways. The author demonstrates how food empowered peasants, fisherfolks, and ordinary merchants to repeatedly challenge the established regulations for food trade and distribution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 287g
• ISBN-13: 9781793618283
• ISBN-10: 1793618283
• Artikelnr.: 68538245

Autorenporträt

By Akira Shimizu

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Market Landscape in the Late Tokugawa Period 2. Deregulating the Market: Wholesalers' associations and Serigai merchants in the Case of Eggs 3. Wholesalers vs. Sh
suke: One Man's Attempt to Promote Ezo Kelp 4. In Defense of the Brand: K
sh
Grapes and Peasants' Power in the Market 5. Legitimizing with the Past: The Yuisho of Tsukudajima's Shirauo (Japanese Icefish) Fisheryg and the End of Early-Modern Tribute Duties Conclusion Bibliography About the Author