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*''Date: [[1649]]/2/26''
*''Japanese'': 慶安御触書 ''(keian ofuregaki)''
The Keian Proclamation was an edict issued by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] and distributed as an ''[[ofuregaki]]'', enjoining peasants to avoid commercial activities, and to adhere to a spirit of frugality.
The edict drew upon [[Neo-Confucianism|Neo-Confucian]] ideas about the corrupting power of commercialization, lauding frugality, by which the authors meant self-sufficiency, i.e. living only on what one made/grew oneself. It banned, or at least strongly suggested against, peasants drinking [[tea]] or [[sake|saké]], or wearing anything but [[cotton]]. Peasants were to make their own household tools, and were to eat barley or other grains, and not [[rice]].
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==References==
*[[Mark Ravina]], ''Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan'', Stanford University Press (1999), 9.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Historical Documents]]
[[Category:Economics]]
*''Japanese'': 慶安御触書 ''(keian ofuregaki)''
The Keian Proclamation was an edict issued by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] and distributed as an ''[[ofuregaki]]'', enjoining peasants to avoid commercial activities, and to adhere to a spirit of frugality.
The edict drew upon [[Neo-Confucianism|Neo-Confucian]] ideas about the corrupting power of commercialization, lauding frugality, by which the authors meant self-sufficiency, i.e. living only on what one made/grew oneself. It banned, or at least strongly suggested against, peasants drinking [[tea]] or [[sake|saké]], or wearing anything but [[cotton]]. Peasants were to make their own household tools, and were to eat barley or other grains, and not [[rice]].
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==References==
*[[Mark Ravina]], ''Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan'', Stanford University Press (1999), 9.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Historical Documents]]
[[Category:Economics]]
