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A STUDY OF THE AWA INDIGO INDUSTRY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MEIJI PERIOD : WITH SPECIAL REFERENCES TO THE INDIGO BUSINESS OF THE TAKAHASHI FAMILY IN TOKUSHIMA PREFECTURE

English (英語)

Kobe University Economic Review

42

25-35

神戸大学大学院経済学研究科

1996

2009-03-16

本文ファイルは、国立情報学研究所CiNiiより提供されたものです。

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the response of the Awa indigo industry to the new competitive conditions caused by the opening of Japan to foreign trade in 1858. I would like to take the case of the business activities of the Takahashi family who were one of the indigo manufacturers in the province of Awa-Tokushima from the Tokugawa period to the Meiji period and to analyze the account book kept by the 10th successor to the head of the family, Yayota Takahashi. The business of the family seems to have suffered from the expanding inflow of foreign indigo. Although the second quarter of the 1890's was a turning point, the family failed to change their business practices to suit the new conditions in a critical period of change in history. The conclusions that can be derived from analyses of the family's business seem to be applicable to other cases among the Awa indigo industry in this period, with the exception of a handful.

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