Plebeian Society and the Growth of Cities in ‘Early Modern’ Japan

9:00-11:00am   Session 1 “Japan’s ‘Early Modern Cities’ in Global Context” 
世界の中の日本の近世都市

Introductory remarks: Daniel BOTSMAN (Japanese history, Yale University)
Responses: Keith WRIGHTSON (English history, Yale) 
Erik HARMS (Anthropology, South East Asia, Yale)
TSUKADA Takashi (Japanese history, Osaka City University)
YOSHIDA Nobuyuki (Japanese history)

11:00-1:00pm   Lunch Break 

森下徹(山口大学)「蔵屋敷から見る大坂の民衆世界」
MORISHITA Tōru (Yamaguchi University),  “Domainal Warehouses and Plebeian Society in Osaka”.  (Paper in Japanese)
—    Comments in English by Michael Thornton, Harvard University

塚田孝「大坂における歌舞伎役者の褒賞と天保改革」
TSUKADA Takashi, “Kabuki Actors and Official Recognition of Merit during the Tenpō Reforms” (Paper in Japanese)
—    Comments in English by Daniel Botsman, Yale University

三田智子(大阪市立大学)「近世和泉国におけるかわた村と地域社会」
MITA Satoko (Osaka City University),  “A Kawata Outcaste Village and Regional Society in Early Modern Izumi”.  (Paper in Japanese)
—    Comments in English by Michael Abele, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne

3:00-3:30pm   Coffee break

3:30-5:00pm   Session 3  Urban Development in Kyoto and Osaka　都市開発

杉森哲也(放送大学)「近世京都・妙法院領の新地開発」
SUGIMORI Tetsuya (Open University of Japan),  “Land Development on the Myōhōin Estate in ‘Early Modern’ Kyoto”  (Paper in Japanese)
—    Comments in English by Youjia Li, Northwestern University

八木滋(大阪歴史博物館)「大坂の都市開発と町」
YAGI Shigeru (Osaka Museum of History),  “Land Development and the Chō Communities of Osaka” (Paper in Japanese)
—    Comments in English by Robert Hellyer, Wake Forest University 

Saturday, March 11: Location: Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave., Rm. 202 

9:00-11:00am   Session 4  Urban Society in Edo 　江戸の都市社会

吉田伸之「江戸町人地の社会=空間構造と民衆世界の位相」
YOSHIDA Nobuyuki, “The social=spatial structure of the chōnin districts of Edo and the topology of plebian lifeworlds” (Paper in Japanese)
—    Comments in English by David Howell, Harvard University

後藤雅知(立教大学)「近世後期の薪炭輸送」
GOTŌ Masatoshi (Rikkyō University), “The transportation of firewood and coal in the late Edo period” (Paper in Japanese)
—    Comments in English by Joanna Linzer, Yale University 

志水アキラ(Wilkes大) 江戸における自分荷物−堀江町庄助の蝦夷昆布取扱いを例として」
Akira SHIMIZU (Wilkes University), “Battling trade restrictions in Edo: Shōsuke of Horie-chō and the trade in Ezo kelp ” (Paper in Japanese)
—    Comments in English by Daniel Botsman, Yale University 

11:00-12:30pm   Lunch Break

12:30-2:00pm    Session 5  Plebeian Lifeworlds and the Margins of the City  
都市の周縁と民衆世界

町田哲(鳴門教育大学)「遍路をめぐる３つの肖像－近世後期の四国遍路からみた民衆世界－」
MACHIDA Tetsu (Naruto Educational University), “Portraits of Three Pilgrims—Plebiean Society in the late Edo period as viewed from the Shikoku Pilgrimage circuit” (Paper in Japanese)
—    Comments in English by George Remisovsky, Yale University 

佐賀朝(大阪市立大学)「居留地付き遊郭の比較史―東京と大阪を素材に」
SAGA Ashita (Osaka City University), “Brothels and the Foreign Concessions—A Comparison of Osaka and Tokyo” (Paper in Japanese)
—    Comments in English by Alex Schweinsberg, Yale University 

2:00-2:15pm   Break

2:15-3:00pm   Final discussion 　全体討論