A Study of Microhistory of Farm Life, Ownership, and Production from Taisho to Rapid Growth Period

本研究的结果可以概括为两点。首先，通过对新潟县佃农奶牛场的分析，我们发现在二战前后，佃农成为有地农民的过程并不仅仅是因为这些佃农脱离了他们缺席的地主；相反，这一进程还旨在打破佃农在经济和物质上对邻近著名农民的依赖，这些农民通过接受佃农子女为仆人和给予木材和燃料等措施支持他们。其次，通过对快速增长时期兵库县和静冈县农村村庄的分析，我们发现农民对稳定生计重要性的认识定义了农业用地的使用范围及其向其他用途的转换，而这些替代土地用途反过来又促进了农村地区的城市化。

The results of this study can be summarized in two main points.First, through an analysis of tenant farmer dairies in Niigata Prefecture, we show that the process of tenant farmers becoming landed farmers in the years before and after World War II did not occur merely by these tenant famers breaking away from their absentee landlords;rather,the process also aimed at breaking the tenant farmers' economic and material dependence on prominent neighboring farmers who had supported them through measures such as accepting tenant children as servants and the granting of wood and fuel.Second, by analyzing rural farm villages in Hyogo and Shizuoka Prefectures during the rapid growth era,we show that the farmers' recognition of the importance of a stable livelihood defined the scope of agricultural land use and its conversion to other uses, and that these alternative land uses in turn spurred urbanization of rural areas.