Demography and disease


For a full bibliography of works on Japanese historical demography and the family published between 1960 and 2002, see EMJ 10.1: 66-71

P. Akamatsu 1980, 'Les premières dénombrements geographiques au Japon', in Mélanges offerts a M.Charles Haguenauer: Etudes japonaises (Paris: L'Asiatique)

J. P. Bassino 2006, 'Divorce in Japan: Family, gender and the state, 1600-2000', Ebisu 36: 217-220

T. Bengtsson & O. Saito (eds.) 2000, Population and economy: from hunger to modern economic growth (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

G. Carre 1997, 'Une crise de subsistance dans une ville signeuriale japonaise au XIXe siecle', BEFEO 84: 249-283

L. L. Cornell 1983, 'Retirement, inheritance, and intergenerational conflict in preindustrial Japan', Journal of family history 8: 55-69

L. L. Cornell 1984, 'Why are there no spinsters in Japan?', Journal of family history 9: 326-39

L. L. Cornell 1987, 'Hajnal and the household in Asia: a comparativist history of the family in preindustrial Japan, 1600-1870', Journal of family history 12: 143-62

L. L. Cornell 1989, 'Age at marriage, female labour force participation, and parental interests', Annales de demographie historique 1989: 223-31

L. L. Cornell 1991, 'The deaths of old women: folklore and differential mortality in nineteenth-century Japan', in G. L. Bernstein, ed, Recreating Japanese women, 1600-1945 (University of California Press)

L. L. Cornell 1996, 'Infanticide in early modern Japan? Demography, culture and population growth', JAS 55: 22-50

L. L. Cornell and A.H ayami 1986, 'The Shumon Aratame Cho: Japan's population registers', Journal of family history 11: 311-28

L. M. Cullen 2006, 'Tokugawa population: the archival issues', NBR 18: 129-180

E. Dourille-Feer 2006, 'Shrinking population economics, lessons from Japan', Ebisu 36: 221-223

W. J. Farge 2006, 'The politics of culture and the art of dissent in early modern Japan', Social justice 33: 63-76

A. Fauve-Chamoux 2006, 'Transmettre une maison: le système successoral des Pyrénées centraleset du nord-est du Japon', Ebisu 36: 139-164

G. Feeney & K. Hamano 1990, 'Rice price fluctuations and fertility in late Tokugawa Japan', JJS 16: 1-30

W. M. Fruin 1973, 'Farm family migration: the case of Echizen in the nineteenth century', KES 10.2: 37-46

S. B. Hanley 1973, 'Migration and economic change in Okayama during the Tokugawa period', KES 10.2: 000-000

S. B. Hanley 1976, 'The influence of social and economic variables on marriage and fertility in eighteenth and nineteenth century Japanese villages', in R. Lee, ed, Population patterns in the past (New York)

S. B. Hanley 1979, 'The Japanese fertility decline in historical perspective', in Lee-Jay Cho & K. Kobayashi, eds, Fertility transition of the East Asian Populations (University Press of Hawaii)

S. B. Hanley 1985, 'Family and fertility in four Tokugawa villages', in S. B. Hanley & A. P. Wolf, eds, Family and population in East Asian history (Stanford UP, 1985)

S. B. Hanley 1991, 'Tokugawa society: material culture, standard of living, and life-styles', CHJ 4

S. B. Hanley & A. P. Wolf (eds) 1985, Family and population in East Asian history (Stanford UP)

S. B. Hanley & K. Yamamura 1972, 'Population trends and economic growth in pre-industrial Japan', in D. V. Glass & R. Revelle, eds, Population and social change (London: Edward Arnold)

S. B. Hanley & K. Yamamura 1977, Economic and demographic change in preindustrial Japan, 1600-1868 (Princeton UP)

W. B. Hauser 1986, 'Why so few? Women household heads in Osaka chonin families', Journal of family history 11: 343-51

A. Hayami 1968, 'The demographic analysis of a village in Tokugawa Japan: Kando-shinden of Owari province, 1778-1871', KES 5: 50-88

A. Hayami 1969, 'Aspects demographiques d'un village japonais 1671-1871', Annales 24: 617-39

A. Hayami 1970, 'Demographic aspects of a village in Tokugawa Japan', in P. Deprez (ed), Population and economics (Winnipeg)

A. Hayami 1971, 'Mouvements de longue durée et structures japonaises de la population a l'epoque de Tokugawa', Annales de démographie historique 1971: 247-63

A. Hayami 1973, 'Labor migration in a pre-industrial society: a study tracing the life histories of inhabitants of a village', KES 10.2: 1-17

A. Hayami 1980a, 'Illegitimacy in Japan', in P. Laslett et al, eds, Bastardy and its comparative history (London)

A. Hayami 1980b, 'Class differences in marriage and fertility among Tokugawa villagers in Mino province', KES 17: 1-16

A. Hayami 1983, 'The myth of primogeniture and impartible inheritance in Tokugawa Japan', Journal of family history 8: 3-29

A. Hayami 1985, 'Rural migration and fertility in Tokugawa Japan: the village of Nishijo, 1773-1868', in S. B. Hanley & A. P. Wolf, eds, Family and population in East Asian history (Stanford UP)

A. Hayami 1986, 'A great transformation: social and economic change in sixteenth and seventeenth century Japan', in E. Pauer (ed), Silkworms, oil and chips, BZJ 8

A. Hayami 1987, 'Another Fossa magna: proportion marrying and age at marriage in late nineteenth-century Japan', Journal of family history 12: 57-72

A. Hayami 1997, The historical demography of pre-modern Japan (University of Tokyo Press)

A. Hayami 1998 , ‘Japan in the eighteenth century: demography and economy’, in L. Blusse & F. Gaastra, eds, On the eighteenth century as a category of Asian history: van Leur in retrospect (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing)

A. Hayami 2001, The historical demography of pre-modern Japan (University of Tokyo Press)

A. Hayami 2010, Population, family and society in pre-modern Japan
(Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press)

A. Hayami & A. Okada 2006, 'Population, ménage et succession au nord-est du Japon : Aizu, 1750-1850', Ebisu 36: 91-138

A. Hayami & K. Satomi 2001, ‘Regional diversity in demographic and family patterns in preindustrial Japan, JJS 27: 295-322

A. Hayami & N. Uchida 1972, 'Size of household in a Japanese county throughout the Tokugawa era', in P. Laslett (ed), Household and family in past time (Cambridge UP)

E. Honjo 1927, 'Population problems in the Tokugawa era', Kyoto University economic review 2.2: 42-63

D. L. Howell 1989, 'Hard times in the Kanto: economic change and village life in late Tokugawa Japan', MAS 23: 349-71

A. B. Jannetta 1987, Epidemics and mortality in early modern Japan (Princeton UP)

A. B. Jannetta 1999, ‘Problems of classifying death in nineteenth-century Japan’, Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences 54: 285-95

A. B. Jannetta 2007, The vaccinators: smallpox, medical knowledge, and the 'opening' of Japan (Stanford: Stanford University Press)

W. Johnston 1995, The modern epidemic : a history of tuberculosis in Japan(Cambridge, Mass. : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University)

W. Johnston 2009, ‘Sexually transmitted diseases and demographic change in early modern Japan’, East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine 30: 74-92

A. Kalland & J. Pedersen 1984, 'Famine and population in Fukuoka domain during the Tokugawa Period', JJS 10: 31-72

T. Kitagawa 1994, 'Contribution a l'histoire de la famille au Japon: une recherche sur la famille nucleaire pendant l'epoque d'Edo et al methode des Annales', Ebisu 4: 7-32

S. Kurosu 1996, ‘Leaving home in a stem family system: departures of heirs and non-heirs in pre-industrial Japan,’ History of the Family 1: 329-352

S. Kurosu 2002, ‘Studies on historical demography and family in early modern Japan’, EMJ 10.1: 3-21

S. Kurosu
2002, ‘Bibliography, bistorical demography and family in early modern Japan’, Early Modern Japan 10.1: 66-71.

G. Ladmiral 2006, 'La notion de famille dans l'étude du Japon pré-moderne : comment réconcilier théories sociologogiques et analyses empiriques?', Ebisu 36: 9-54

G. P. Leupp 1992, 'Population registers and household records as sources for the study of urban women in Tokugawa Japan', GLJ 5: 49-85

W. R. Lindsey 2007, Fertility and pleasure: ritual and sexual values in Tokugawa Japan (U Hawai’i P)

K. Masaoka 1986, 'Role transitions and their timing in the peasant life course during the late Tokugawa period, 1825-69', Journal of family history 11: 329-42

J. Morris & T. C. Smith 1985, 'Family and mortality in an outcaste village in Japan, 1750-1869', in S. B. Hanley & A. P. Wolf, eds, Family and population in East Asian history (Stanford UP)

M. L. Nagata 1998, 'Name changing patterns and the stem family in early modern Japan: Shimomoriya', in A. Fauve-Chamoux and E. Ochiai, eds, House and the stem family in Eurasian perspective/ Maison et famille-souche: perspectives eurasiennes, Proceedings of the C18 Session, Twelfth International Economic History Congress, pp. 291-319

M. L. Nagata 1999, 'Why did You Change your name? name changing patterns and the life course in Early Modern Japan', The history of the family 4: 315-338

M. L. Nagata 1999, 'Balancing family strategies with individual choice: name changing in Early Modern Japan', Japan review 11: 145-166.

M. L. Nagata 2000, 'Labor migration, family and community in Early Modern Japan¹, in P. Sharpe, ed., Women, gender and labor migration (London and New York: Routledge)

M. L. Nagata 2003, ‘L’adoption à Kyoto aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles’, Ebisu 31: 59-83

M. L. Nagata 2004, 'Headship and succession in early modern Kyoto: the role of women', Continuity and change 19: 73-104

M. L. Nagata 2005. Labor Contracts and Labor Relations in Early Modern Central Japan (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

C. Nakane 1972, 'An interpretation of the size and structure of the household in Japan over three centuries', in P.Laslett (ed), Household and family in past time (Cambridge UP)

A. Niehaus & J. Braun (eds.) 2010, Kaibara Ekiken: Yôjôkun - Regeln zur Lebenspflege (München: Iudicium)

E. Ochiai 2006, 'Familles et communautés villageoises du Japon pré-moderne, diversité géographique et evolutions historiques', Ebisu 36: 55-90

A. Okada & S. Kurusu 1998, ‘Succession and the death of the household head in early modern Japan: a case study of a Northeastern village, 1720-1870’, Continuity and Change 13: 143-66

C. Patin 2006, 'Chronique d'une cérémonie funéraire', Ebisu 36: 193-214

H. O. Rotermund 1991, Hôsôgami, ou la petite vérole aisément (Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose)

G. Rozman 1990, 'East Asian urbanization in the nineteenth century: comparisons with Europe', in A. D. van der Woude, J. de Vries & A. Hayami, eds, Urbanization in history: a process of dynamic interactions (Oxford: Clarendon Press)

O. Saito 1983, 'Population and the peasant family economy in proto-industrial Japan', Journal of family history 8: 30-54

O. Saito 1990, 'The changing structure of urban employment and its effects on migration patterns in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan', in A. D. van der Woude, J. de Vries & A. Hayami, eds, Urbanization in history: a process of dynamic interactions (Oxford: Clarendon Press)

O. Saito 1990, 'The changing structure of urban employment and its effects on migration in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan', in A. van der Woude, J. de Vries & A. Hayami, eds, Urbanization in history: a process of dynamic interactions (Oxford University Press)

O. Saito 1992, 'Infanticide, fertility and "population stagnation": the state of Tokugawa historical demography', JF 4(2): 369-381

O. Saito 1998, ‘Two kinds of stem-family system? Traditional Japan and Europe compared’, Continuity and Change 13: 167–186

O. Saito 2000, 'Marriage, family labour and the stem family household: traditional Japan in a comparative perspective', Continuity and change 15: 17-45

O. Saito & K. Hamano 2006, 'Dissolution du mariage et continuation de la lignée familiale dans la société rurale de l'époque Tokugawa', Ebisu 36: 165-190

Y. Sasaki 1985, 'Urban migration and fertility in Tokugawa Japan: the city of Takayama, 1773-1871', in S. B. Hanley & A. P. Wolf, eds, Family and population in East Asian history (Stanford UP)

G. W Skinner 1993, 'Conjugal power in Tokugawa Japanese families: a matter of life or death', in B. D. Miller, ed, Sex and gender hierarchies (Cambridge University Press)

R. J. Smith 1972, 'Small families, small households, and residential instability: town and city in "pre-modern" Japan', in P. Laslett, ed, Household and family in past time (Cambridge UP)

R J. Smith 1978, 'The domestic cycle in selected commoner families in urban Japan, 1757-1858', Journal of family history 3: 219-35

R. J. Smith 1985, 'Transformations of commoner households in Tennoji-mura, 1757-1858', in S. B. Hanley & A. P. Wolf, eds, Family and population in East Asian history (Stanford UP)

T. C. Smith 1977, Nakahara: population and family farming in a Japanese Village, 1717-1830 (Stanford U.P.)

T. C. Smith & R. C. Eng 1976, 'Peasant families and population control in eighteenth-century Japan', Journal of interdisciplinary history 6: 417-45

A. Sorensen 2002, The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the twenty-first Century (London: RoutledgeCurzon)

M. Takagi 2000, 'Landholdings and the family life cycle in traditional Japan', Continuity and change 15: 47-75

C. R. Tsang 2005, ‘Marriage, adoption and Honganji’, JJRS 32: 53-83

A. D. van der Woude, J. de Vries & A. Hayami 1990, 'Introduction: the hierarchies, provisioning, and demographic patterns of cities', in A. D. van der Woude, J. de Vries & A. Hayami, eds, Urbanization in history: a process of dynamic interactions (Oxford: Clarendon Press)

K. Yamamura 1985, 'Samurai income and demographic change: the genealogies of Tokugawa bannermen', in S. B. Hanley & A. P. Wolf, eds, Family and population in East Asian history (Stanford UP)



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