Rescue book - Kyuukosho

...Early modern agricultural books share this characteristic, and famines also had a major impact on theories of governing the country and saving the people. Records on famines can be divided into two categories: disaster records and relief records. Disaster records convey the devastation caused by natural disasters, price trends, and famines, and include criticism of feudal lord policies. They specifically record the reality of famines in terms of various aspects such as starvation, exile, cannibalism, murder, arson, and theft, and frequent deaths from epidemics. ...

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…近世の農書はこのような性格を共有しているし，経世済民論にも飢饉が与えている影響は大きい。　飢饉に関する記録は，災異記録と救荒書に二分できる。災異記録は天災地変，物価の動向，飢饉の惨状を伝えるもので，領主政策の批判を含み，飢饉の実態を餓死，流亡，人肉や畜肉食，殺人･放火･盗みの横行，疫病死の多発等の諸相から具体的に記録したものである。…

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