都市と農村がはぐくむ物質循環 : 近世京都における金銭的屎尿取引の事例

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In order to achieve a sustainable economy, economic activity must be carried out in a manner that promotes the material cycle. One of the important activities is the recycling of urban manure that is returned to suburban agricultural land. This article provides a historical account of the night-soil transactions in Kyoto from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. A night-soil economy is described as a system in which urban manure was returned to suburban agricultural land through monetary/commercial transactions. Finally, it is established that the night-soil economy formed a significant part of the monetary cycle that encouraged the material cycle related to the disposal of surplus entropy.
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