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Published under the auspices of The Center for Japanese Studies University of California, Berkeley Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan STEPHEN VLASTOS Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England ©1986 by The Regents of the University of California Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Chapter 7 appeared, in slightly different form, as “Yonaoshi in Aizu” in T. Najita and J. V. Koschmann, eds., Conflict in Modern Japanese History: The Neglected Tradition, and is reprinted with permission.© by Princeton University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Vlastos, Stephen, 1943- Peasant protests and uprisings in Tokugawa Japan. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Peasant uprisings-Japan. 2. Japan- Social conditions- 1600-1868. 3. Fukushima-ken (Japan)- Social conditions. I. Title. DS871.5.V56 1986 952\025 85-5832 ISBN 0-520-04614-5 For Mary Ann Contents List of Maps ix List of Tables x Acknowledgments xi 1. Introduction 1 Conflict and Collective Action 1 Tokugawa Political Economy 5 Organization and Mobilization 10 Goals and Ideology 14 Collective Action and Violence 18 2. The Political Economy of Benevolence 21 Conflict over the Land Tax 27 Examples from Fukushima 30 Daimyo Bad and Good: Aizu in the 35 Seventeenth Century 3. Collective Action in the First Half of the Tokugawa Period 42 The Minamiyama Direct-Appeal Movement 47 Direct-Appeal Movements: Possibilities and Expectations 55 Demonstrating in Force 59 Protests in the Mid-Tokugawa Period 64 CONTENTS 4. New Causes of Conflict 73 . Collection of Taxes in Kind 79 Revolt against the Village Headman 81 Economic Conflict in the Village 86 5. Sericulture and Village Economy in Shindatsu Development of Silk Production 92 Technology and Economy of Scale 96 Sericulture and Peasant Economy 102 6. The 1866 Shindatsu Uprising 114 Poor Peasants Protest 120 The Uprising 123 Economic Background 130 Mobilization in the Late Tokugawa Period 7. Yonaoshi Uprisings in Aizu, 1868 142 8. Conclusion: Subsistence and Rebellion at the End of the Tokugawa Period 155 Bibliography 169 Index 181 Maps Map i. Japan, Showing Fukushima Prefecture and the A izu Region 29 M ap 2. Fukushima Prefecture in the Tokugawa Period Map 3. Uprising in Shindatsu District, Fukushima Prefecture, 1866 126
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