- List of Figures
- Map of Medieval Japan
- Introduction: Medieval Money
- The Use of Money in Premodern Japan
- Money and Economic Growth
- Reconsidering Medieval Money
- Scope of the Study
- 1. “Cash Fever” and the Late Heian Response
- Money and Economic Policies in Nam and Early Heian
- Problems with Heian Coins and Currency
- Gold, Foreign Trade, and Bargaining Power
- Twelfth-Century Coins and the Heian Elite Response
- Conclusion
- 2. Making Change: The Spread of Money and Markets
- The Market in Ancient Japan
- Medieval Markets
- Why Switch to Cash?
- Money, Trade, and the Kamakura Bakufu
- Conclusion
- 3. Virtue, Vice, and Self-interest: Money and the Kamakura Bakufu
- Mongols or Moneylenders? Searching for Motives
- Virtuous Government and Debt Relief in Early Japan
- Tokusei and the Court–Bakufu Rivalry of the Thirteenth Century
- Self-Interest and Bakufu–Retainer Relations
- Reciprocal Relationships and Gift Economy
- Conclusions: Vice, Virtue, and Self-Interest in Kamakura Japan
- 4. Coins, Taxes, and Trust in the Fourteenth Century
- Tax Commutation
- Commutation: A Local or Central Phenomenon?
- Wiry Switch to Cash?
- Commutation and Bakufu Economic Policy
- Bills of Exchange
- Conclusion
- 5. Late Medieval and Beyond
- From Kamakura to Kenmu
- Economic Policies of the Muromachi Bakufu
- Instability and Other Weaknesses of the Muromachi System
- The Role of Non-Elites in the Muromachi Economy
- Medieval Money in the Early Modern Economy
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: Money and Japanese History
- Works Cited
- Character List
- Index
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Harvard East Asian Monographs 334
Coins, Trade, and the State
Economic Growth in Early Medieval Japan
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