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Village "Contracts" in Tokugawa Japan: Fifty Specimens with English Translations and Comments

Village "Contracts" in Tokugawa Japan: Fifty Specimens with English Translations and Comments

Henderson, Dan Fenno

Hardcover

Series: Index of Art in the Pacific Northwest, Book 2

Young Adult Nonfiction

ISBN10: 0295954051
ISBN13: 9780295954059
Publisher: Univ Of Washington Pr
Published: May 1 1975
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.64
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.72 Depth: 9.74
Language: English

There are assembled here the Japanese (sorobun) originals and English translations of over fifty private agreements, mostly dating from the 19th century and selected from eighteen different villages scattered about the main island of Japan. Their subject matter has been classified into fifteen categories for convenience: water rights, land sales, boundary lines, commons, loans with or without interest, loans with or without various kinds of security, personal services, agreements concerning family relations (such as dowry, retirement, succession, sale-of-daughter, and prenuptial agreements), agreements concerning the headman's selection and performance, inter-village agreements, dispute settlement agreements, and apology agreements.

This volume will be of interest to historians, students of Japanese law, culture, and history, anthropologists, as well as anyone interested in Japan in the Edo period.

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