大阪地域における近世被差別部落の人口動態とその背景についての一考察 : 河内国丹北郡更池村内の近世部落を中心として

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The overall demographic pattern in early-modern Japan showed a steady increase in population during the early Edo period, followed by a phase during which the population remained stagnant or actually declined during the mid-Edo period, and finally a stage of resumed growth at the end of the period. On the other hand, the trend among Buraku communities almost everywhere in Japan during the mid- and late-Edo periods was toward continued growth. During the 1950s researchers were already attributing this paradox not to the influx of new blood into the Buraku communities but to a natural increase brought about by a high birth rate. New research since the 1970s has sought to pursue the reasons for the increase more deeply. Among the factors that have come to light is that occupations of the residents of the Buraku communities had come to include the making of straw sandals and drums, farming, day-labouring, and many other pursuits as well as the traditional tanning of animal hides. As a result, their economic well-being improved to the extent that the practices of abortion and infanticide, previously common among both peasants and townspeople especially during famines, became less of a necessity than before, leading naturally to an increase in population. In the present paper I begin by setting out the data about population increase in Buraku communities in both the Osaka region and Japan as a whole during the period in question. Following that I outline the increase in the Buraku population of Saraike Village, Tanboku county, Kawachi from the pre-Edo period to the beginning of the modern period, seeking especially to throw light on the background to the changes. By these means I show that in the said village too there was a variety of occupations, and that this variety lay behind the natural increase that the village population showed. However, another conclusion that emerges clearly from this research is that more than 60% of the houses were rented, and that during times of bad harvests the death rate among babies and infants was considerably higher than among other peasants. It is clear, in other words, that life was by no means stable for those living in the Buraku communities.
桃山学院大学の論文
1993-09-30

大阪地域における近世被差別部落の人口動態とその背景についての一考察 : 河内国丹北郡更池村内の近世部落を中心として

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