Professor IWAKI, Takuji
Professor IWAKI, Takuji
- Academic Degree
- Ph.D. in Letters, Kansai University
- Expertise
- Japanese early modern history
- Research Theme
- Research on the dissolution process of Japanese early modern society
The Processes of disintegration of early modern society
In early modern Japan, the Kinai region and neighboring provinces were positioned as an agricultural region that had achieved high productivity and was centered around Osaka, fulcrum of the han system's distribution network. This area was also a non-autonomous domain characterized by rule by the shogunate and administration by individual lords simultaneously, and it is this arrangement that is viewed as the final form of early modern national governance. My past research has focused on Kinai and neighboring provinces in an effort to construct a new theory of early modern society in terms of systems of rule, shifts in the populace, and the military centers of the shogunate⁄han state. Moving forward, I intend to construct a theory of the disintegration of early modern society from the perspective of Kinai and neighboring provinces—a topic which has gone all but unexamined to date.