...V. Dixon Morris Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the Formation of Early Modern Japan: The Case of Kaga Domain . By Philip C. Brown . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1993 . xxi, 312 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 936...

...Robert G. Flershem Abstract It is reasonable to assume that Kaga han, in view of its size, large rice and other exports, and central coastal location, provided the lion's share of ships and shipowners operating in the Japan Sea during the two centuries before Perry. Villagers were going from Noto...

... Fuedalism] ( Tokyo , 1951 ), p. 256 ; and Hall John W. , “ Foundations of the Modern Japanese Daimyo ,” Journal of Asian Studies , XX / 3 ( 05 1961 ), 317 –29. 6 To summarize these figures, the samurai population was 574 in Hikone, 1,500 in Kaga, 1,500 in Owari, and 3,000...

... . “‘Feudal Remnants’ and Tenant Power: The Case of Niigata, Japan, in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.” Peasant Studies 15 ( 1 ): 1 – 26 . Brown P. C. 1993 . Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the Formation of Early Modern Japan: The Case of Kaga Domain . Stanford : Stanford...

... on the land, and especially the institutional structures that affected land and tax policy. He concludes that these policies in Kaga did not result from the implementation there of the orders of the national hegemons or the shoguns. Hideyoshi, for all his flair and bombast, did not compel the Maeda to carry...

... Japan's national integration. The opening chapter looks at the Kaga domain during the period leading up to the Meiji Restoration. Baxter is concerned with explaining why the largest domain failed to take a leading role in the attack on the old regime. He gives evidence of a long-standing policy of caution...

... political community." His thesis, simply put, is that local institutions played a key role in promoting Japan's national integration. The opening chapter looks at the Kaga domain during the period leading up to the Meiji Restoration. Baxter is concerned with explaining why the largest domain failed to take...

... seisan to kisci jinushi-sei (Tokyo, 1954), p. 88; Nomura Kanetarō (ed.) Mura meisaichō (Tokyo, 1949), pp. 26, 736; Oda Kichinojō (ed.) Kaga han nōsei shikō (Tokyo, 1929), p. 578; Minkan seiyo , pp. 260–261. 16 Kan Kikutarō, “Matsuyama han ni okeru jomen-sei no kenkyū,” Shakai keizai...

... the effort, for surely this volume will be regarded as a standard reference for a long time to come. WALTER EDWARDS Tenri University Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the Formation of Early Modern Japan: The Case of Kaga Domain. By P H I L I P C. B R O W N . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993...

... villages in the surrounding domain of Kaga, agriculture, rural social and economic life, and rural administration. He would have had to compare patterns of social and economic relations and patterns of cooperation and conflict that he discerned in the city with those in the rest of Kaga and, indeed...

.... submarine "Nautilus" with sinking the "Soryu": (1) it was "Kaga," not "Soryu," which "Nautilus" attacked; and (2) the attack on "Kaga" was ineffective. This statement ran counter to the conclusions of Rear Admiral S. E. Morison (Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Actions) and all other American naval writers...

... utility. Sometimes, however, perhaps inevitably, intention surpasses execution. If his work were truly holistic, surely McClain would have had to write more about villages in the surrounding domain of Kaga, agriculture, rural social and economic life, and rural administration. He would have had to compare...

... : Stanford University Press . Kisaburō. Wakabayashi “Kaga-han shoki kaiun shiryō oboe-gaki” [Sources for the Kaga domain’s shipping and trade in the early Tokugawa period] . Chihō shi kenkyū [Local history research] 13 . 2 : 34 – 41 . Wigen Kären . 1992 . “The Geographic Imagination...

... that the official Ryukyu trade did little for the economy of Satsuma and he has, understandably, been unable to substantiate the thesis that it was illicit trade from the 1820's that gave her the economic strength to take the lead in the Restoration. Kaga and the Noto peninsula, which as Mr. Flershem's researches...

... in the book. These statements were weighed against all available sources of information American and Japanese. For example, the authors stated that on two counts the Americans were mistaken in crediting U. S. submarine "Nautilus" with sinking the "Soryu": (1) it was "Kaga," not "Soryu," which "Nautilus...

... economy grew steadily throughout the entire period (1600-1868) and that the peasant class was not excluded from the benefits derived from this growth. In 1958, T. C. Smith suggested, after a close examination of villages in Kaga han, that agricultural output was growing but that the effective tax rates...

... Masamoto, who was a friend of his, Rennyo was spared this extreme measure and allowed simply to admonish the Kaga rebels. Gyōjitsu , p. 123. 24 See, for example, Ofumi Nos. 6, 7, 8, 115,117 and 119, in Shōgan Inaba , ed., Rennyo shōnin ibun ( Kyoto: Hōzōkan , 1937 ). 25...