TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ehlers,Maren Annika
TI  - Give and take: poverty and the status order in early modern Japan 
T2  - Harvard East Asian monographs
SN  - 978-0-674-98387-8
U1  - 305.510952 23E
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Asia Center
KW  - Social classes--Japan--History
KW  - Japan--Social conditions--1600-1868
KW  - Poverty--Japan--History
KW  - Japan--History--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868
N1  - Bibliogr. p. [309]-334; The castle town and domain of Ono -- Beggars by birth: an outcaste group in domain society -- The management of mendicancy -- The guilds of the blind -- Benevolence, charity, or duty? : hunger relief in the castle town -- Growth through gratitude: welfare in a mercantilist domain
N2  - "Offers a new history of early modern Japan that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, peasants, and people at the margins of society such as entertainers, laborers, and outcastes. This is the first book to explore how high and low people in Tokugawa society negotiated and collaborated with one other"--Provided by publisher
ER  -