- Chronological List of Translated Court Orders
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Population and Agriculture before 645
- Establishment of the Ritsuryō State
- 1. Fertility, Mortality, and Life Expectancy in the Early Eighth Century
- Population Registration in East Asian History
- Census-Taking in the Law Codes
- Selection of the Population Data
- Appraising the Quality of the Data
- Adjusting the Data
- Application of Stable Population Analysis
- Fertility, Mortality, and Life Expectancy in Early Japan
- 2. Population Trends and Epidemic Disease
- The Nature of the Evidence
- The Arrival and Initial Ravages of the Disease
- The Epidemic at Its Height
- Government Medical Policy and Identification of the Disease
- Mortality in the Great Epidemic
- Other Epidemics in the Ritsuryō Period
- 3. Land Clearance
- Land Clearance in the Law Codes
- Subsequent Legislation
- Early Examples of Land Clearance
- Early Shōen
- Land Clearance in the Early and Middle Heian Period
- 4. Land Use and Agricultural Technology
- Artificially Irrigated Rice Farming
- Naturally Irrigated Rice Farming
- Dry Fields
- Slash-and-Burn Agriculture
- The Early Landscape
- Land Use and Land Tenure
- 5. Rural Settlement
- Migration in the Law Codes
- Government Attempts to Enforce the Codes
- Migrants and Their Motives
- Rural Settlement Patterns
- Settlement Patterns and Local Government
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index
HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE MONOGRAPH SERIES


Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 24
Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645–900
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Publication Date: 03/19/1995