Inu no Mansui - Inu no Mansui

...With the opening of the port, silkworm eggs and raw silk production increased dramatically, thanks to the efforts of local Yokohama merchants, and the need to improve quality led to the rapid spread of reeling machines.
[Disasters, turmoil, culture]
The people of Shinano suffered from successive disasters, including the Tenmei famine of 1783-86, which began with the burning of Mount Asama, the Tenpo famine of 1833-36, the "Hitsuji flood" of the Tenryu River system in 1715 (Shotoku 5), the "Inu flood" of the Chikuma River system in 1742 (Kanpo 2), and the Zenkoji earthquake of 1847 (Koka 4). However, it is also true that they were able to prevent the devastation of rural areas, maintain a gradual population increase, and ensure an improvement in their standard of living, which was largely due to the development of peasant struggles against the exploitation by the feudal lords.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Inu no Mansui" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…開港によって蚕種，生糸生産は地元の横浜売込商の活躍とあいまって飛躍的に増大し，品質改良の必要から座繰器が急速に普及した。
［災害，騒動，文化］
　浅間焼け(浅間山)にはじまる1783‐86年の天明の飢饉（ききん）や1833‐36年の天保の飢饉，1715年(正徳5)天竜川水系の〈未（ひつじ）の満水〉や42年(寛保2)千曲川水系の〈戌（いぬ）の満水〉，また1847年(弘化4)の善光寺地震等々，信濃の民衆も重なる災害に苦しんだ。しかし，農村荒廃を食いとめ人口の漸増を保ち，生活向上を確保しえたのも事実で，これには領主収奪に抵抗する農民闘争の展開が大きかった。…

※「戌の満水」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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