Manners of the City of Edo
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Campus where you would like to present
SURC 271
Start Date
21-5-2015
End Date
21-5-2015
Keywords
Manners, Edo, Japan
Abstract
The City of Edo was one of the largest cities in the world in the eighteenth century. As the capital city of Japan in the Tokugawa Shogun era, samurai were initially the dominant residents of the city. However, as samurai did not have ways to produce their own food and products for their life, many retailers and manufacturers in Kyoto and Osaka were invited to the city by the Tokugawa. Soon, as the retailers bridged between samurai and manufacturers, the retail industry became the dominant industry of the city. As the dominance became obvious, business manners for the retailers became general manners of the people of the city. This presentation will show examples of such manners.
Recommended Citation
Takei, Hideki, "Manners of the City of Edo" (2015). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 32.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2015/oralpresentations/32
Department/Program
ITAM
Additional Mentoring Department
ITAM
Manners of the City of Edo
SURC 271
The City of Edo was one of the largest cities in the world in the eighteenth century. As the capital city of Japan in the Tokugawa Shogun era, samurai were initially the dominant residents of the city. However, as samurai did not have ways to produce their own food and products for their life, many retailers and manufacturers in Kyoto and Osaka were invited to the city by the Tokugawa. Soon, as the retailers bridged between samurai and manufacturers, the retail industry became the dominant industry of the city. As the dominance became obvious, business manners for the retailers became general manners of the people of the city. This presentation will show examples of such manners.
Faculty Mentor(s)
Hideki Takei