北関東小作争議発生地域における地主制の展開

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• In a rice growing village of the Kita (northern)-Kanto region, tenancy disputes occured frequently in prewar period. This study aims to clarify the following issues. Why did tenants raise their demands? How could they advance economically? How was the landlordism transformed by disputes? Objects of my study are tenants and the resident landlord Tanami (owned 30 cho of paddy in 1947) who lived in Naka village, Tochigi prefecture. My conclusions are as follows. Tenants won temporary reduction of paddy rent by 1921 's dispute, and permanent ones in 1922, 1924. Subsequently, they demanded temporary rent reduction in years of low rice price, and poor harvest. The reason they demanded rent reduction was that they could hardly fill their household expenditure with agricultural income. Early 1920s' disputes were commanded by large sclae tenants. But profited by rent reduction, they left the front gradually. 1930s' disputes were commanded by small scale tenants, but these disputes were no more effective than those of 1920s'. By early 1920s' disputes, Tanami's rent income was reduced. And land investment turned difficult for him. Then he became enthusiastic in stock investment, and he could enjoy a large stock income. After all, his domestic economy went on scaling up. Thus, disputes couldn't drive landlord's economy to reduction. In spite of frequent disputes, resident landlords like Tanami, did not reduce their land. It was absentee landlord that was forced to reduce his land, who failed to collect rent without difficulty. Furthermore, shopkeepers and salaried workers became small landlords. On the other hand, tenants who could save their surplus not only by reducing rent level but raising land productivity, and consequently entered the land market, were only the owner-tenants of large scale classes. Large number of the landless tenants could obtain no land untill Land Reform after the war. Disputes could reduce landlords' rent collecting power to some extent, but couldn't pull down the high amount nature of rent paid in kind.

• 政治経済学・経済史学会の論文
• 1990-10-20

著者

• 大栗 行昭

  宇都宮大学

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