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Industrial development in the daimyô domain and economic modernization of Japan – With special references to the Awa indigo industry in the province of Awa-Tokushima from the Tokugawa period to the Meiji period

1999; Elsevier BV; Volume: 11; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0922-1425(98)00049-8

1879-2006

Masatoshi Amano,

Financial Crisis of the 21st Century

This paper aims to clarify how pre-conditions to economic development in modern Japan had been prepared. Specifically speaking, it takes as an example the case of the Awa indigo industry and explores how the development of this industry contributed to the economic modernization in Tokushima prefecture. The Awa indigo industry enjoyed rapid progress and development in the Tokugawa period. It is undeniable the accumulated capital in the late Tokugawa period contributed as a cornerstone to the economic modernization in Meiji Tokushima prefecture. This paper also mentions the influence of imported indigo on the Awa indigo industry after the opening of Japan to foreign trade. The Awa indigo industry seems to have suffered from the expanding inflow of foreign indigo. The stagnancy of the Awa indigo industry in the middle of Meiji period must have restrained modern industrial development in Tokushima prefecture.