地域史と近世農書(2003年度シンポジウム 農書研究の現状と課題)
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In this paper I insist on making use of the rich content of Nousho in the Edo era positively as the main historical material for tha regional study and I reconsider the regional characteristic of Shimotsuke with the group of Nousho in Shimotsuke as an example. In Japan in the Edo era, various Nousho were produced in each region. Those regional Nousho are the books in which not only the agricultual technique but also all kinds of works of farmers are written and those Nousho are suitable historical material to indicate the regional life and the regional characteristic as a whole. In the regional Nousho they carried through their insistence that their own regions were the center and that it was important to know the characteristics of their own regions well and to create and maintain the agricultural technique and the way of living which were suitable for their own regions. The regional Nousho also includes the wisdom and the idea of farmers who tried to make the most of their regional resources and it shows concretely how combination and circulation of regional resources should be. It has been understood so far that Shimotsuke in the late Edo era was a region where the farmers were poverty and the village was devastated hard. But in Shimotsuke outstandingly many Nousho in early modern times were produced among Kanto erea. And what is more, the media or the ways of expression of Nousho in Shimotsuke had a rich variety. In addition to the one written with paper and writing brush, there are shrine sculpture, dedicated Ema, Tendara sculpture and the one engraved on the stone. These group of Nousho make it possible to see the knowledge, the ability and the margin of the farmers, the richness of the agricultural culture, and the substantiality of the village society and the regional society in Shimotsuke. Many of Nousho in Shimotsuke were produced along the river. The regional characteristic of Shimotsuke which was the junction of the people, the articles and the information which connected the Northern Kanto area with the Ou area through the river transport was the foundation to produce many Nousho.
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