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...y of California, Irvine. Themes she has focused on in her research include peasant revolts, particularly in the [[Edo period]], and women's history, with a pa *''Peasant Uprisings in Japan: A Critical Anthology of Peasant Histories'' (1991)

...to [[Nagaoka han|Nagaoka domain]] in [[Echigo province]]. However, peasant uprisings in Shônai convinced the shogunate to retract the relocation order. A local

...ent, and famine for the peasantry, and on the heels of significant peasant uprisings the previous year (in [[1787]]). Among his first duties, Yoshiki was to mak ...er-ranking inspectors, including ''kachi metsuke'', inspectors of commoner/peasant matters.

...l, and that other daimyô (or other powers, such as ''[[ikki]]'' or peasant uprisings) might seek to attack the castle. However, the Maeda, being the wealthiest

...ecially from the Russians, but also as a means of strengthening it against uprisings against [[Meiji government|the new government]]. A centralized military wou ...to be proven right, as the 1870s saw numerous [[shizoku rebellions|samurai uprisings]] of this sort, particularly in [[Kyushu]], culminating with the [[Satsuma

...tural by tradition, and more powerfully resisted Han control, leading many uprisings, attacks, and raids. ...and power in the process. New agricultural technologies might have helped peasant families become more solvent, and more independent, but such equipment was

...eted swords, and not firearms. It was only in [[1657]] that regulations on peasant ownership of weapons began to be put into place; even then, hunters, and fa ...erations, though they were still nominally not seen as the property of the peasant household. Some guns were designated "two-season guns," to be used only at

...ad complete control of China by [[1279]]. The dynasty eventually fell to a peasant rebellion, the [[Han Chinese]] leader of which then established the [[Ming ...on throughout history in times of plague, famine, or the like, this led to uprisings/rebellions, millenarian cults, and a weakening of faith in or loyalty to th

...d as part of philosophies or ideologies that this would return the samurai/peasant relationship to an earlier, more balanced, form. Many retainers resisted, h ...e.g. ''[[sonno|sonnô]] [[joi|jôi]]'' factions, millenarianism, or peasant uprisings - during the [[Bakumatsu period]].

...stipends|stipend]] was also higher, even as the amount extracted from each peasant (on average, per capita) was less. This also meant that the domain did not The ''kabunakama'' met with considerable popular opposition, and peasant uprisings cropped up across the domain. The domain was initially reluctant to give in

...extiles, or other products into X. This heavy tax burden frequently led to uprisings, riots, and protests. The poll tax system was eventually abolished in [[190 ...ing immediate and radical change (in the 1870s-80s) would help avoid local uprisings or revolts.

...ere food shortages being suffered by his domain, and the resulting peasant uprisings, Sadanobu erected a shrine dedicated to [[Matsudaira Sadatsuna]], founder o

...y lost to competitors. And as a result, the 1860s saw numerous large-scale uprisings and revolts, both by peasants in the countryside, and townspeople in the bi ...translated as "men of high purpose") began to meet in the city and to plan uprisings or attacks similar to those which had already taken the lives of Ii Naosuke

...extiles, or other products into X. This heavy tax burden frequently led to uprisings, riots, and protests. One particularly notable set of protests, known as th ...Miyakos and Yaeyamas beginning in [[1902]].<ref>E.H. Norman. ''Soldier and Peasant in Japan: The Origins of Conscription''. New York: Institute for Pacific Re

...ing peace to their lands (安土, ''ando'', "peaceful land"), avoiding peasant uprisings. Many of these ''daimyô'' wielded fiscal independence, regulated or otherw

...a village called Nakamura in [[Owari province]], the son of a foot-soldier/peasant known to us as Yaemon. Hideyoshi's childhood name is recorded as Hiyoshimar ...of fact, all previous regents had been of Fujiwara descent, a distinction peasant-born Hideyoshi could hardly claim. To add at least a token legitimacy to hi

...ntial to the well-being of the domain, and for avoiding samurai or peasant uprisings. In the end, they successfully parried Sadanobu's attempts to hamper the do

...] as well - by some estimates, as many as "465 rural disputes, 445 peasant uprisings, and 101 urban riots" just in the fifteen years from 1830-1844 alone.<ref>S ...chnology available at that time. With agricultural production static, many peasant families turned to limiting the size of their households in order to mainta

...litical/social tensions caused by rural poverty (and thus avoiding peasant uprisings), seeing benefit too in the remittances emigrants might send back to their

...intaining the peace in the provinces, including the suppression of peasant uprisings and of banditry, and not on defending against large-scale invasion, let alo