The Resting Fields Alliance of Ten Salt-making Provinces of Japan (1809-1888)

Present data set was produced in the course of the European Research Council funded research project entitled Beyond Eureka: The Foundations of Japan's Industrialization, 1800-1885 (J-InnovaTech) within the Horizon 2020 framework (2020-2027). The goal of the overall project is to stimulate a shift in the approach to the study of Japan's early industry and industrialization process using history of technology approaches as well as selectively deploying quantitative historical methods. Project’s key projected intervention is in providing a more nuanced understanding of diversity and fine mechanics of innovation processes

Within this larger project, the goal of the present data set is to support and enhance research on the innovation in the salt industry in Japan between 1809 and 1888. It was specifically constructed for the purpose of enabling historical social networks analysis and data visualization in the early stages of the research project.

The long-term projected role of the dataset is to allow for the replicability of analysis produced within the framework of this research project.

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