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Population, family and society in pre-modern Japan : collected papers of Akira Hayami.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hayami, Akira.
- Series:
- Collected papers of twentieth century Japanese writers on Japan ; v. 4.
- The collected papers of twentieth-century Japanese writers on Japan ; v. 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Japan.
- Families.
- Japan--Population--History.
- Japan.
- Japan--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (408 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Folkestone, Kent, U.K. : Global Oriental, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Doyen of demography studies in Japan at the University of Tokyo, this collection of Akira Hayami’s writings in English brings together for the first time an invaluable resource of comparative primary data on the demographic history of Japan. Containing twenty key essays, the volume is divided into five parts: Tokugawa Japan, Demography through Telescope, Demography through Microscope, Family and Household, Afterwards. It begins with Philip II of Spain and Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the sixteenth century and concludes with Koji Sugi and the emergence of modern population studies in the twentieth century.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Tokugawa Japan
- pt. 2. Demography through the telescope
- pt. 3. Demography through the microscope
- pt. 4. Family and household
- pt. 5. Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-48618-7
- 9786612486180
- 90-04-21293-0
- OCLC:
- 753480475
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9781906876098.i-382 DOI
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