Porcelain and Power
Comparative Regional Analysis of Industrial Manufacturing in Tokugawa Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20210335 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ariko Ota (Tokyo Metropolitan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-46 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-5914 • E-ISSN: 1479-5922 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s147959141600022x |
| OpenAlex | W2578171376 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
This article analyzes the political context of industrialization in Tokugawa Japan through an analysis of merchandising policies for porcelains. With a comparison of the regions where the major sites of porcelain production were located, the study examines the processes by which arrangements for porcelain distribution were organized in the domains of Saga and Owari, and the district of Mino. The analysis shows contrasting types of arrangements in terms of the objectives and major agents who were responsible for making these policies and regulations. These policies and arrangements reflected the relationships between political authorities and those who were engaged in porcelain production and distribution in each region. The relationships varied significantly from each other, ranging from direct control by the regional authority, to relatively equal bargaining power, to extensive merchant autonomy. Comparative analysis of power relations illustrates the various ways of organizing resources that shaped the regional diversities and dynamics of industrialization in Japan. The relationships strongly influenced the ways in which resources, access, and opportunities for creating and accumulating resources for porcelain production and distribution were organized. An analysis of the merchandising policies for porcelains demonstrates the impacts that the relationships between the political authorities and those who were engaged in the production and distribution of porcelains had on industrialization in nineteenth-century Tokugawa Japan
Archaeology · Autonomy · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Geography · Industrialisation · Political science · Politics · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1992
Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain
State/Culture
Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan
Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan, 1600-1868
Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920
The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750–1920
Proto-industrialization revisited
Industrialization and Population Pressure in Eighteenth-Century Flanders
The Technological Transformation of Japan
Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain
Proto-industrialization
The Technological Transformation of Japan from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century
Rural Industry, Growth Linkages, and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Regulating the Social
A primer on citizenship
| Highly cited | No |
|---|