Village "Contracts" in Tokugawa Japan: Fifty Specimens with English Translations and Comments

by Dan Henderson

There are assembled here the Japanese (sorobun) originals and English translations of over fifty private agreements, mostly dating from the 19th century and selected from eighteen different villages scattered about the main island of Japan. Their subject matter has been classified into fifteen categories for convenience: water rights, land sales, boundary lines, commons, loans with or without interest, loans with or without various kinds of security,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295954051
• ISBN13: 9780295954059
• Release Date: May 1975
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.7"