EAS100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gruel, Takers, Edo Period
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Peasants = people who are rural; making their living from land/sea and through what they produce with these crops/ products: separated by class status and separated geographically from others in japan. We also have within provinces/ domains, samurai class moving to castle towns therefore there"s geographical separation as well as class separation. Result in villages, autonomous in the sense that they"re left alone, yet come under the rule of bakufu. Building styles different across japan depending on the weather not one kind of housing in rural communities. Population of japan during the tokugawa at 30 million ~ pretty stable throughout the period. It reached its capacity once they have managed to get the most out of the land that can support the population: there were already efforts during the tokugawa to keep family sizes small. At the beginning of tokugawa, taxed so highly left with enough to survive.
