A research in historical-demography during the Japanese feudal and early-modern era, focusing on the demographic events: birth, subsistence, migration and mortality of the commoner.

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Research results, which are in accord with the original research program, are as follows.The 1st plan is to create a set of excellent findings on demographic events as soon as we can, and to communicate it quickly not only to academic communities but to local society. Takagi, research director, organized two sessions at the domestic academic association (JSS, SEHS) held from September to October 2006. A local newspaper company (The Iwanichi Shinbunsha), on the other hand, helped us to distribute attractive news on our research activity and outcomes. This is why we could have convinced many researchers of successful attainment of the plan (in detail, see the Gist Booklet from each association, the Iwanichi newspapers, and 'References' on the next page).The 2^<nd> and 4^<th> plan are to collect source material (Kimoiri Monjyo), and translate it into modern passages. Kimoiri Monjyo at Kozenji (main research village) is really composed of well reliable document, but so many in number that … More we couldn't use all kinds of register (for example, a series of population, migration, tax-paying record). Research report (forthcoming) compiles those source documents on the population registration which the Sendai domain kept.The 3^<rd> plan is to construct mortality database and to analyze it intensively by the GIS software. Director myself had compiled the database, because it is necessary to pay special attention to the enterprise. The data from more than three hundred temples is revealing us that sudden increases in deaths, especially in the north eastern Japan, are explicable on the basis of modern agricultural statistics (Fuken Tokeisho). Increase in mortality rate perhaps came not only from cool weather but from excessive dependence on paddy yield, which feudal lord (local government too) and peasants themselves promoted during these three hundred years.As for the 4^<th> plan, we spared some amount of fund for the conservation of materials in collaboration with local historians. Two catalogs were published as well, which are opened to public at the Library of Congress in Tokyo and so on. Less