Give and take
Subtitle: poverty and the status order in early modern Japan
By: Maren A. Ehlers
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs -- 413; Harvard East Asian monographs -- 413.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780674983878
Subjects: Social conditions; Social classes; Poverty; History
Description: "Offers a new history of early modern Japan that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, peasants, and people at the margins of society such as entertainers, laborers, and outcastes. This is the first book to explore how high and low people in Tokugawa society negotiated and collaborated with one other"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The castle town and domain of Ono; title: Beggars by birth: an outcaste group in domain society; title: The management of mendicancy; title: The guilds of the blind; title: Benevolence, charity, or duty? : hunger relief in the castle town; title: Growth through gratitude: welfare in a mercantilist domain.