Abstract

Abstract Recent studies of fertility in Tokugawa Japan have shown that the level of fertility was moderate compared with that of historical Europe. This paper, on the proximate determinants of fertility in Tokugawa Japan,1 examines changes in peasant fertility and the relationship between nuptuality and fertility in particular.’ Specifically, I calculate the Hutterite indices (If, lg, Im, and Ih) for a variety of Japanese populations and compare them with other historical populations. Using these indices to observe changes in fertility levels, we can guess whether these changes are coming from the changes in nuptuality (Im) or fertility (lg or Ih).

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