CORE-UA 507 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: 6 Years, Gie, Office Of Energy Efficiency And Renewable Energy
22 Feb 2017
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Rice economy: makes up majority of agriculture, basis of keisei saimin. Nago: feudal extended families: family and community structures, peasant farmers, no concept of wage labor, feudal peasantry, shogun saw them as parasites, social relation rather than economic relations, goal of labor is to provide subsistence. No profit: oyakata: main family of the house (genetically related) Extended family is connected to main family. Not everyone had a last name (if you were low class: main household redistributes food to everyone, so one group is really that much (cid:373)ore (cid:862)poor(cid:863) tha(cid:374) a(cid:374)other group. Two classes outside family: (cid:862) er(cid:448)a(cid:374)ts(cid:863) = house-holders (kenin/gokenin) Also hereditary, but not related to main family. Over generations, they might be adopted into the main family. They have a last name, but sometimes incorporated into master family: nago = country peasants/famers. More independent; have their own land and space separate from main household. No one in this system is paid for their work.
