Daily Life and Demographics in Ancient Japan
October 11th, 2007
Daily Life and Demographics in Ancient Japan
William Wayne Farris (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.)
6:00 – 7:30 PM
What was the population of Japan during the ancient age (700-1150)? This lecture attempts to answer this important question and provide support for demographic trend so adduced by examining mortality factors such as disease, famine and war and background variables such as agricultural and industrial technology, commerce and cities, and the family and material life. As a result of this research, at long last historians will have defensible population figures for Japan from the Jomon age to 1700.