Japan's Medieval Population: Famine, Fertility, and Warfare in a Transformative Age

by William Wayne Farris

Book Overview

This volume charts a course through never-before-surveyed historical territory: Japan's medieval population, a topic so challenging that neither Japanese nor foreign scholars have investigated it in a comprehensive way. And yet, demography is an invaluable approach to the past because it provides a way--often the only way--to study the mass of people who did not belong to the political or religious elite. By synthesizing a vast cache of primary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824834240
• ISBN13: 9780824834241
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.8"