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Standard of Living in Nineteenth-Century Japan: Reply to Yasuba

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Susan B. Hanley
Affiliation:
Associate Professor of Japanese Studies and History, University of Washington, DR-05, Seattle, Washington 98195.

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Notes and Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1986

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References

1 Hanley, Susan B., “A Hight Standard of Living in Nineteenth-Century Japan: Fact or Fantasy?this Journal, 43 (03 1983), pp. 183–92.Google Scholar

2 Fujino, Yoshiko, “Meiji shoki ni okeru sanson no shokuji to eiyō: ‘Hida go-fūdoki’ no bunseki o tsūjite,” Kokuristu Minzokugaku Hakubutsukan Kenkyū Hōkoku [“Food and nutrition in mountain villages in the early Meiji period through an enalysis of the ‘Hida go-fūdoki’,” National Museum of Ethonology research reports], 7 (Sept. 1982), pp. 632–54.Google Scholar

3 See Hanley, Susan B. and Yamamura, Kozo, Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan, 1600–1868 (Princeton, 1977), table on pp. 294–95: “Life Expectancy for Sample Areas in Tokugawa Japan.”Google Scholar

4 Ibid., table on p. 222: “Life Expectancy Estimates for Fujito and Nishikata.” I calculated these estimates from the original village records.Google Scholar