The Art of Breaking: Putting Salt Fields to Rest in 19th century Japan
Conférence d’Aleksandra Kobiljski (CRJ-CCJ / CNRS) au Council on East Asian Studies (CEAS), MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies à l’Université Yale, le 7 avril 2022. Drawing on a preliminary reading of The Secrets of Salt Making 塩製秘録, a 1816 salt-making manual by an obscure Japanese slat-maker Miura Genzô 三浦源蔵 (?-1835), this talk seeks to address the change in production dynamics in the Seto Inland sea region in the first half of the 19th century. In so doing, this...
