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カワグチ ヒロシ
川口 洋
文学部日本文化学科
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| タイトル | Decrease of the child deaths after the introduction of the Vaccination on the outskirts of Edo/Tokyo, Japan |
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| 著者 | Hiroshi KAWAGUCHI |
| 単著・共著の別 | 単著 |
| 発行雑誌 | Demographic Responses to Economic and Environmental Crises |
| 発行所 | Proceedings of the IUSSP seminar in 2009, Reitaku University |
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| 開始ページ | 252 |
| 終了ページ | 272 |
| 出版年月 | 20100200 |
| 掲載種別 | 研究発表要旨（国際会議） |
| 概要 | This paper analyzes the decrease of child deaths from smallpox, as well as faith healing practice before and after vaccination was introduced in Tama County in the province of Musashi on the outskirts of Edo, which was the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. In 1849, a Dutch doctor introduced the first vaccine in Japan. It was tried in 1850 in the towns of Hachioji and Fuchu, also located in Tama County. According to Mr. Fujiakira Sashida’s diary regarding faith healing practice in the hamlet of Harayama, the number of smallpox sufferers rapidly decreased from 1852, after the introduction of vaccination. Mr. Sashida, an onmyoji (Japanese specialist in magic or incantations), worshipped the smallpox deity with a codified ritual in the case of children infected with smallpox. During the nineteenth century, faith healing rituals in Tama County were performed not only by the onmyoji, but also by Buddhist and Shinto priests and mountain hermits. Peasants, village heads, intellectual townspeople, warriors and even the Shogun’s family supported this traditional practice, which was maintained even after vaccination against smallpox was introduced. |