EAS246H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Soy Sauce, Edo Period, Lacquerware
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Educating the masses = empowering the masses = less control. Men and women worked outside the family in manufacturing. Changes at the end of the tokugawa period. Complicated networks for home production of silk, cotton and tougher products. Paper, candles, ropes, shoes, fabric dyes (such as indigo), combs and hairpieces. Move to areas which make it closer to resources and water power. By the 1800s, production was no longer monopolised by city artisans or urban markets. A shift between peasant and merchant roles (social roles) Larger gap between well off and poor peasants. Smaller towns were near war materials and water power. Free from tax and guilds that controlled merchants. Wage labour set stage for rapid modernisation to come. Were prevented from engaging in trade meaning. Attempt to return to a warrior morality . There must be more lands to put into production. An attempt to return to simpler times . Law ranking samurai at mercy of market.
