Download or read book Labour Contracts and Labour Relations in Early Modern Central Japan written by Mary Louise Nagata and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a collection of labour contracts and other documents, this book examines the legal, economic and social relations of labour as they developed in the commercial enterprises of Tokugawa Japan. The urban focus is Kyoto, the cultural capital and smallest of the three great cities of the Tokugawa period, but the data comes from a wider region of commercial and castle towns and rural villages in central Japan.