Abstract
The study of landlordly system is a key point to understand the structure of rural society and its change before World War II. By the study of landlordly system in rural sociology, we have intended to clarify the social, economical foundation and concrete process, of the domination of jinushi (landlords) over kosaku (tenant farmers) and, in turn, the formation of subjectivity of farmers. But I doubt that we have got satisfactory results, theoretically and empirically, from these studies. Especially, we have the week point that these studies don't clarify the concrete figure of jinushi-kosaku (landlord-tenant farmer) relationship. Therefore, in this paper, I intend to grasp the jinushi-kosaku relationship in Taisho era through analysis of relationship between the jinushi families and the kosaku families (called “Ie” in Japanese) -especially, through analysis of the organisation of labour - based on the landholding. From this point of view, I investigate;
(1) statistical analysis of the disintegration of farmer.
(2) the character and its change of landlord's, owner farmer's and tenant farmer's management in the farming region.
(3) the character of the organisation of labour centered on landlord's self-farming.
(4) the character of jinushi-kosaku relationship in Taisho period and concrete mechanism of the disintegration of farmers based on its relationship. In this study, I want to supplement neglected points in economy and examine the disintegration of farmers from a sociological aspect.
