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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 | Where did the peasants die in the suburbs of Edo, Japan during the 17th -19th centuries? |
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| 担当区分 | 単著 |
| 発行所、発行雑誌又は発表学会等の名称 | Discussion Paper Series (Faculty of Business Administration, Tezukayama University), vol. F-006 |
| 実施年月 | 20080400 |
| 分類 | (DISCUSSION PAPER) |
| 概要 | In this paper, I will focus on the places where the peasants were likely to die before the industrial revolution in the end of the 19th century. I intend to examine the mobility of peasants from the 17th Century to the 19th Century by investigating the Buddhist temple death registers in Tama County, Musashi Province which was on the outskirts of Edo City. The death places of the peasants living in Tama County spread all over Japan. The birthplaces of the persons who were from out of the parishes and died in Tama County also spread all over Japan. Not only males, adults and poor peasants but also females, children and rich farmers died far from their home villages. The number of dead persons who were from other places increased after 1860. Death places and birthplaces of the dead suggest high mobility of the peasants in the suburbs of Edo City. On general principle, if a family member of a parishioner of a Buddhist temple died out of his/her home village, the dead body was carried to his/her home village and the priest of the Buddhist temple performed a funeral service for him/her. But some dead persons were buried in cemeteries in the Buddhist temples near the death places if the home village of the dead was too far, the dead had no claimant or the dead was too poor.pp.1-14 |