Life course of peasants and mechanism of the stem family in early modern Japan

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This study examines the life course of peasants and mechanism of the stem family households in the 18th and 19th centuries. For this study, we use the Shumon Aratame Cho (SAC) of Tohoku Japan(6 villages). At first, we were going to use center Japanas(6 villages) as historical materials, too. However, we were able only to have actually made the data base of Tohoku Japan. Because we have spent a great amount of time on the data base making. We want to do an efficient data base making to the problem in the future.For such reasons, we analyzed the historical materials of Aizu mountainous district. The result of this study is brought as follows.The Hammel and Laslette model was modified, we called it "the modified Hammel and Laslette model", and adopted for the classification of household structure to determine accurately the number of stem family households. The result of the observation proved that the household structure depended on social class. The landowning class had a high ratio of the cycle that formed a stem family household. On the other hand, the non-landowning class had a low.As a result on this study, it can be said that stem family households were the typical household structure in peasant society of the Aizu mountainous district during the late Tokugawa Era. However, this assumption is true only for peasant households belonging to the landowning class, and it does not apply to non-landowning peasant households.