EAS100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Japanese Literature, Stock Trader, Edo Period
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Lives in cities there"s 3 major cities: (1) edo the ultimate castle town. There"s usually one castle in each domain. Split into castle, homes for nobility and samurai and shops for merchants and artisans. Its where most vassals lived (2) osaka rice bowl of the country. There"s 5 major highways to get from one city to another: sh kaido, nik kaido, k sh kaido, nakasend , and. There"s a post town every 5 to 8 km: merchants along the streets, artisans at the back, post towns are small towns act as pit-stops", depended on peasant corvee labour (?, there"s inns, shops, stables, etc. There"s an extensive system of water transport to move/transport from city to city. There"s different kinds available in the edo period: yellow cover books, humorous books, comic books, academic books, cook books, travel books, how-to-books, and etc. There"s approx 200 000 books per year (200 new titles/year)
