This article examines population trends, demographic characteristics and the family reproduction system in Aizu district, a highland area of northeastern Japan. The study is based on shūmon aratame-chō (SAC), population registers, of four villages between 1750 and 1850. The authors show how demographic patterns are interrelated with family and household patterns. The most frequent family type was the stem family household, traditionally considered as characteristic of Japan, where the ie (house) was usually transmitted to a single heir. Family transmissions of rural estate are observed in detail. Major differences were seen among social classes, but, overall, Aizu families possessed ideals of ie and were incorporated into ie systems, parti...
There were regional increases and decreases in the number of farm households in pre-war Japan. The a...
Using the longitudinal population registers of Shimomoriya (1716-1869), a village in northeastern Ja...
The aim of this study is to make clear the relationship between the family change and the rural empl...
This article examines population trends, demographic characteristics and the family reproduction sys...
This dissertation is an analysis of population and households of a village in Northeast Japan, using...
This article, based on the findings from Japanese historical demography studies, discusses the reali...
This article denounces the widespread view that nuclear family in Japan is a recent phenomenon cause...
This article denounces the widespread view that nuclear family in Japan is a recent phenomenon cause...
This article investigates the relationship between marriage dissolution and family continuation in T...
Stem-family system tells us much about the mechanisms controlling reproduction in rural areas and th...
Abstract: The stereotype of the Japanese family system, centered on the ie, characterizes it as one ...
This paper presents the main four theoretical approaches that have led research on the so-called Jap...
The objective of this paper are to describe the overlooked regional variation of the Japanese family...
At present his research is focused on population and mobility in Tokugawa Japan, and popular religio...
1. Introduction 2. Case studies on mono-inheritance 3. Case studies on plural-inheritance 4. Economi...
There were regional increases and decreases in the number of farm households in pre-war Japan. The a...
Using the longitudinal population registers of Shimomoriya (1716-1869), a village in northeastern Ja...
The aim of this study is to make clear the relationship between the family change and the rural empl...
This article examines population trends, demographic characteristics and the family reproduction sys...
This dissertation is an analysis of population and households of a village in Northeast Japan, using...
This article, based on the findings from Japanese historical demography studies, discusses the reali...
This article denounces the widespread view that nuclear family in Japan is a recent phenomenon cause...
This article denounces the widespread view that nuclear family in Japan is a recent phenomenon cause...
This article investigates the relationship between marriage dissolution and family continuation in T...
Stem-family system tells us much about the mechanisms controlling reproduction in rural areas and th...
Abstract: The stereotype of the Japanese family system, centered on the ie, characterizes it as one ...
This paper presents the main four theoretical approaches that have led research on the so-called Jap...
The objective of this paper are to describe the overlooked regional variation of the Japanese family...
At present his research is focused on population and mobility in Tokugawa Japan, and popular religio...
1. Introduction 2. Case studies on mono-inheritance 3. Case studies on plural-inheritance 4. Economi...
There were regional increases and decreases in the number of farm households in pre-war Japan. The a...
Using the longitudinal population registers of Shimomoriya (1716-1869), a village in northeastern Ja...
The aim of this study is to make clear the relationship between the family change and the rural empl...