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The Mercantile Ethical Tradition in Edo Period Japan

Ichiro Horide , Edward Yagi , Stanley J. Ziobro Ii

This book demonstrates that during Japan’s early modern Edo period (1603–1868) an ethical code existed among the merchant class comparable to that of the well-known Bushido. There is compelling evidence that contemporary merchants, who were widely and openly despised as...