- List of Maps, Tables, and Figures*
- Acknowledgments
- Note to the Reader
- Introduction
- 1. The Castle Town and Domain of Ōno
- 2. Beggars by Birth: An Outcaste Group in Domain Society
- 3. The Management of Mendicancy
- 4. The Guilds of the Blind
- 5. Benevolence, Charity, or Duty? Hunger Relief in the Castle Town
- 6. Growth through Gratitude: Welfare in a Mercantilist Domain
- Conclusion
- Character List
- Appendix 1: Rice Price in Ōno Town
- Appendix 2: Sample Commodity Prices and Wages in the Ōno Area before 1860
- Bibliography
- Index
- * Maps, Tables, and Figures
- Maps
- 1. Location of Ōno town
- 2. Major roads and rivers in Echizen Province in the Tokugawa period
- 3. Ōno’s domain territory, 1770
- 4. Ōno town, 1820
- 5. Ōno town and surroundings
- Tables
- 1. Number of rice gruel recipients at Hanaguro’s handout
- 2. Total number of Koshirō
- 3. Key events of famine relief measures in Ōno town, 1783–84
- 4. Recipients of sukui and osukui during the Tenmei famine
- Figures
- 1. View of Ōno town from Kameyama hill
- 2. The castle town of Ōno, circa early 1680s
- 3. The village of Omodani at the Omodani copper mine
- 4. Town elders’ journal
- 5. “Beggar dwellings” and four houses of leatherworkers
- 6. Houses of Koshirō and leatherworkers
- 7. “Beggar bosses (kojikigashira) Kojirō” on a town map
- 8. Beggar bosses expelling homeless beggars
- 9. Zatō, goze, kojikigashira e shūgi fuse no oboe
- 10. Uchinami village buried in snow
- 11. Location of Ōno’s beggar hospice in Shibanmachi
- 12. Beggars at the door, as depicted by Kawamura Kihō
- 13. Goze in Kanazawa, as depicted in Muda shugyō kane no waraji
- 14. “Beggar” and “blind man,” as depicted in Kinmō zui
- 15. Number of recipients (including Koshirō) at the rice gruel kitchens
- 16. Rice gruel handout in Hinin Taiheiki
- 17. Rice gruel handout in “Minkan bikōroku”
- 18. Saiseikan Hospital on a town map
- 19. Doi Toshitada
- 20. Uchiyama Shichirōemon
- 21. Preface of Gokyūjogura chokoku ukeharaichō
- Maps
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