Abstract
This chapter examines the Meiji Restoration from two local historical standpoints. It first examines the history of “temple lands” held by Matsuoji temple in Izumi, demonstrating the ways in which early modern local developments in relation to land use and “ownership” not only underpinned but also influenced the process of land privatization in the early Meiji period. The chapter further reveals through a study of village shrine associations in Izumi across the early modern–modern divide strong continuities in the ways in which people in regional society organized their social lives. Together these two case studies illustrate the need to consider history from the perspective of everyday life in local societies even when writing histories of major political events such as the Meiji Restoration.
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