The famine disasters attacked the Northeast Japan partly including the Central Japan in the late Shogunate (1750s, 1780s, 1830s, and 1860s).
The writer investigates the number of victims who starbed to death in those lean years and other problems through “kakocho” of several temples, and concludes as follows:
1) The famine disasters in 1830s showed the widest suffered areas, it included the whole areas of the Northeast and the Central Japan.
2) The core area suffered from the starbation almost accord with Dfa, the climatic pattern of Köppen.
3) The rural areas suffered much more from starbation than urban areas.
4) Common people of urban areas suffered more from starbation Samurai people.
5) More adult men died than children in all starbed districts.
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