Specialty Food, Market Culture, and Daily Life in Early Modern Japan (eBook)

Regulating and Deregulating the Market in Edo, 1780-1870

Akira Shimizu (Autor)

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2022
192 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1827-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This study is an unique approach to social and cultural history of Japan through the scope of food and food ways. In this book-length study of food markets in the early modern Japanese capital of Edo, Akira Shimizu draws a fascinating picture of early modern Japanese society where specialty foodsseasonal, regional, and hard-to-find delicacies that satisfied the palate of nation's highest political authority, the shogunserved as a powerful nexus that connected different social groups. In the course of their daily lives, peasants, fisherfolks, and merchants, who made specialty food available at the market, were in constant negotiation with powerful wholesalers and government authorities in charge of procuring specialty foods of the highest qualities for the shogun's Edo Castle. Utilizing a number of previously unused archival materials that reveals the lives of those at the bottom of the society, the book traces the production, supply, and handling of specialty foods and shows how ordinary people were empowered to assume control over the distribution of specialty food, eventually affecting their procurement for the shogunal kitchen. In doing so, they disrupted the existing market order on the shogunal requisition, and led to the reconfiguration of market relations.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.2.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 29 Illustrations including: - 24 Black & White Illustrations; - 5 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Food and Foodways • Food Policy • History • Japanese history • Social History • Tokugawa Japan
• ISBN-10: 1-7936-1827-5 / 1793618275
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7936-1827-6 / 9781793618276