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*''Japanese'': 国産役所 ''(kokusan yakusho)''
''Kokusan yakusho'', or "country products offices," were government entities created in a number of [[han|domains]] in the [[Edo period]], to either manage the operations of domainal monopolies over certain local products, or to otherwise encourage or oversee the production of such products.
Some may have played a similar role within the domains to the clearinghouses established by the shogunate, such as the ''[[Nagasaki kaisho]]'', to manage the import, export, and transportation/distribution of [[silver]] and of certain other high-value goods.<ref>Robert Hellyer, ''Defining Engagement'', Harvard University Press (2009), 56-59.</ref>
Most domains which did not have such offices earlier established them in the [[Bakumatsu period]], seeking to capitalize on new opportunities for domainal economic strength in the wake of the sudden economic changes brought on by that period. Many of these were explicitly called ''[[Kokueki]]'' Offices, drawing upon a concept of domainal prosperity through envisioning & operating the domain as a single economic entity, a concept which originated in the 18th century. The [[Tokugawa shogunate]] similarly established a "National Prosperity [''kokueki''] Development Office" in [[1862]] to manage the import of [[silk]] and other products at [[Yokohama]].
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==References==
*[[Luke Roberts]], ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa'', Cambridge University Press (1998), 201-202.
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[[Category:Terminology]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Economics]]
[[Category:Political Institutions]]
''Kokusan yakusho'', or "country products offices," were government entities created in a number of [[han|domains]] in the [[Edo period]], to either manage the operations of domainal monopolies over certain local products, or to otherwise encourage or oversee the production of such products.
Some may have played a similar role within the domains to the clearinghouses established by the shogunate, such as the ''[[Nagasaki kaisho]]'', to manage the import, export, and transportation/distribution of [[silver]] and of certain other high-value goods.<ref>Robert Hellyer, ''Defining Engagement'', Harvard University Press (2009), 56-59.</ref>
Most domains which did not have such offices earlier established them in the [[Bakumatsu period]], seeking to capitalize on new opportunities for domainal economic strength in the wake of the sudden economic changes brought on by that period. Many of these were explicitly called ''[[Kokueki]]'' Offices, drawing upon a concept of domainal prosperity through envisioning & operating the domain as a single economic entity, a concept which originated in the 18th century. The [[Tokugawa shogunate]] similarly established a "National Prosperity [''kokueki''] Development Office" in [[1862]] to manage the import of [[silk]] and other products at [[Yokohama]].
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==References==
*[[Luke Roberts]], ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa'', Cambridge University Press (1998), 201-202.
<references/>
[[Category:Terminology]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Economics]]
[[Category:Political Institutions]]