Wednesday 9.00 to 11.00 in Room 203
11.5 Famine and village society: the response of Kami-shiojiri, Japan to the Great Famine in the Tenpo period
Conveners: Moto Takahashi and Hiroshi Hasebe
Chair: Peter Spufford
Moto Takahashi:
Kin relationships and families in Kami-shiojiri: with a contrasting parallel study of Willingham, Cambs., UK
Hiroshi Hasebe:
Famine, crises and mutual aid in Kami-shiojiri
Futoshi Yamauchi:
The effect of bad harvests in Kami-shiojiri on landholding and land use
Kouki Iwama:
The provisions against bad harvests in Kami-shiojiri: a case study of the Eizoku-ko after the bad harvests of the 1830s
