Tokugawa and Meiji Restoration:
Explain Dazai’s concerns in the context of late Tokugawa and Meiji Restoration and the larger world-system as described by Gunder Frank.
Project instructions:
Dazai Shundai lamented that large and small Daimyo alike are impoverished and lack financial resources. They are said to borrow from between 10 and 50 or 60 percent of their retainers stipends? As this is often still insufficient, they borrow on an annual basis from the large merchant houses of Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka.?
(Please read the attached file Dazai-Shundai.pdf)
And please also read other attached files.
In an essay of 6-7 pages, explain Dazai's concerns in the context of late Tokugawa and Meiji Restoration and the larger world-system as described by Gunder Frank.
Personal request: try to analyse the failure or changes of bakufu by using the interlock of Nation, States and Capitalism. they represent different mode of exchanges.
Nation: Nationalism
States: Plunder, “core” plunders peripherals
Capitalism: Buy and sell
Analysing by explaining the mode of exchange when writing. “ex: commodities” The status of classes shifted around 1750 due to growing market as the result of surplus agricultre.
Merchants status go up and shogun’s down, so that shoguns were unhappy and initated nationlism movement.
Meanwhile, please compare with the contemporaneous world economy system. Another thing to mention is that the impacts of US’s invasion in 19 centuries result in anti bakufu movement and revolution.