濃尾平野北西部における寄生地主制の地域的展開--木田村と西之橋村の場合
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I. It has been said that agriculture specializing in rice tends to be self-sufficient and stagnant in its economic character, that it caused to retain both feudal landownership and feudal community, and that rice-producing areas are therefore particularly prone to hindering the development of modern agriculture and the formation of parastic landownership.True, rice cultivation is apt to be technically stagnant as compared with production of such commercially remunerative commodities as cotton or indigo-plant, but it did have own history of progress in the course of its years of development. Besides, rice passed for a commodity among farmers to a fairly large extent. Thus it may lead to misunderstanding to over-emphasize the stagnant and self-sufficient character of rice-producting areas. It will be more correct to say what brought about parasitic landownership was not stagnant, but insufficient progress in agriculture in these areas.II. In the north-western part of the Nobi Plains, where rice is the dominant farm produce, we find two villages which respectively present the typical cases of both the distinct formation (in the early nineteenth century) and the indistinct formation of parastic landownership: Kida-mura and Nishinohashi-mura. These two villages are here compared on their differences in both technical progress and village structure.III. In the case of Kida-mura, semi-annual crop raising and intensive utilization of land as result of improved irrigation brought about, through employment of a large amount of labor, a betterment of management in tenant farms since the middle of the eighteenth century. Together, with the influence of urban monetary economy, these new technical development resulted in the shortage of labor, which disabled feudal landownership and gradually liquidated feudal communal structure. However, as the progress in agricultural technology took the direction of intensive farming and did not head towardes increased productivity of labor, which is the only true technical progress, the disolution of feudal agriculture did not lead to modern agriculture but to wide-spread parasitic landownership on the basis of ultra-small farm management.In the case of Nishinohashi-mura, no such improvement of land or agricultural progress can been seen, and this accounts for the indistict formation of parasitic landownership there.
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