Village "contracts" in Tokugawa Japan

fifty specimens with English translations and comments

There are assembled here the Japanese originals and English translations of over fifty private agreements, mostly dating from the 19th century and selected from eighteen different villages scattered about the main island of Japan.

• Format
• 234 pages, Hardcover
• First published
• 1975
• Publishers
• University of Washington Press
• Subjects
• Contracts·Japan·Sources·Villages·Law and legislation·Japan·History·Japan·Social life and customs·1600-1868
• Language
• English