Three-volume set of the Early Modern Regional History Forum Volume 1: South and North in Island History (Table of Contents) I = Perspectives from the South (Border Regions of Early Modern Japan - Focusing on the Ryukyu Perspective - ... Masahiro Maehira / The Concealment Policy of Ryukyu-Japan Relations and "Michino-shima" towards China ... Kenzen Uehara / The Production of Cotton in Early Modern Ryukyu - Focusing on the Supply System to Kumejima - ... Akihito Fukazawa / Early Modern Ryukyu and "Japan's National Border" - Analysis of Tangren Certificates - ... Miki Watanabe) / II = Connecting South and North (Osaka Market and Ryukyu/Matsumae Goods ... Kenichiro Aratake / Smuggling Issues and Niigata/Ezochi during the Tempo Era ... Yuko Asakura) / III = Perspectives from the North (Sakhalin Indigenous Trade and Ainu in the North Pacific World of the 18th-19th Centuries ... Hiroki Takakura / Ainu Spirit Sending Rituals and the Place-Contract System ... Shigeki Akino / Inter-regional Exchange Across the Strait ... Hisashi Takimoto / "Ezo Conquest" and Regional Historical Awareness - Focusing on the Tamuramaro Legend in the Tsugaru Region - ... Isao Kikuchi) Volume 2: Perspectives on Regional History (Table of Contents) I = Governance and Regional Society (Magistrate's Office and Regional Society - Regarding the Campaign to Attract Magistrate's Offices in Shinshu - ... Atsuo Nishizawa / Domain Society and Regional Society - The "Okangiri" and "Correspondence" of the Sendai Domain - ... Toshimitsu Kagoashi / Magistrate's Office and Regional Society - The Tempo Reforms of the Nagasaki Magistrate's Office - ... Hitoshi Soeda) / II = Economic Activities and Regional Society (Industry and Regional Society/Regional Economy - Using the Hagi Domain Bocho Salt Fields as a Case Study - ... Akihiro Ito / Merchant Activities and Lordly Policies in the Region - Focusing on the Non-Domain Regions of Higashi-Harima - ... Kosuke Nishimukai / Human Migration and Regional Society - Regarding the "Nichiren Sect's Famous Place" of Mount Fuji - ... Shuichi Aoyagi) / III = The Family and Regional Society (Funeral Culture and the Family - Using the Kinai Common People as a Case Study - ... Mitsuo Kinoshita / Women and Regional Society - Using the "Nishitani Saku Diary" of Furuichi, Kawachi County as a Source - ... Toru Yabuta) Volume 3: Regional Societies and Leaders (Table of Contents) I = Regional Society and Leaders in the Late Early Modern Period (The Actions and "Intermediate" Consciousness of Village Officials in the 18th Century - Focusing on the Headman Tomoyama Okunuki of the Kawagoe Domain in Musashi Province - ... Tetsuya Shirai / Regional Leaders and Scholarship/Domain Reform - Focusing on the Educational Activities of Dengo Kaneko for the People in the Yonezawa Domain - ... Yuichiro Koseki / The Development of the Osaka Iron Seat Opposition Movement during the An'ei-Tenmei Era - The Collaboration of Iron Masters and Farmers in the Chugoku Region - ... Ichiro Yamazaki / Leaders Who Support the Region - The Thoughts and Actions of Eizaemon Kume in the Takamatsu Domain - ... Isao Ochiai / The Narration of Regional History and Self-Formation - "Family" and Self's Mission as Seen in Akira Nakamori of Izumi Province - ... Megumi Kuwahara) / II = Regional Society and Leaders During the Meiji Restoration Period From the Middle Class Theory, the Ronin Group and the Shinsengumi - ... Shin Hirakawa / Local Officials and Hometown of the Kumamoto Domain During the Late Edo and Meiji Restoration Periods - ... Jun Misawa / Activities and Information of Wealthy Farmers During the Late Edo and Meiji Restoration Periods - ... Takashi Tsunematsu / "Goisshin" and Regional Leaders ... Masamichi Taniyama / Regional Leaders and Freedom and People's Rights in Aizu - ... Koji Tasaki)