Dōza

Dōza (銅座^?) was the Tokugawa shogunate's officially sanctioned copper monopoly or copper guild (za)^[1] which was created in 1636^[2] and (1701-1712, 1738-1746, 1766-1768).^[3]

Initially, the Tokugawa shogunate was interested in assuring a consistent value in minted copper coins; and this led to the perceived need for attending to the supply of copper.

This bakufu title identifies a regulatory agency with responsibility for supervising the minting of copper coins and for superintending all copper mines, copper mining and copper-extraction activities in Japan.^[4]

Notes

^ Jansen, Marius. (1995). Warrior Rule in Japan, p. 186 at Google Books, citing John Whitney Hall. (1955). Tanuma Okitsugu: Forerunner of Modern Japan.
^ Schaede, Ulrike. (2000). Cooperative Capitalism: Self-Regulation, Trade Associations, and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan, p. 223.
^ Shimada, Ryuto. (2005). The Intra-Asian Trade in Japanese Copper by the Dutch East India Company, p. 51. at Google Books
^ Hall, John Wesley. (1955) Tanuma Okitsugu: Foreruner of Modern Japan, p. 201.

References

Hall, John W. (1955). Tanuma Okitsugu, 1719-1788: Foreruner of Modern Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. OCLC 445621
Jansen, Marius B. (1995). Warrior Rule in Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 10-ISBN 0521482399/13-ISBN 9780521482394; OCLC 422791897
Schaede, Ulrike. (2000). Cooperative Capitalism: Self-Regulation, Trade Associations, and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 10-ISBN 0198297181/13-ISBN 9780198297185; OCLC 505758165
Shimada, Ryuto. (2005). The Intra-Asian Trade in Japanese Copper by the Dutch East India Company. Leiden: Brill Publishers. 10-ISBN 9004150927/13-ISBN 9789004150928; OCLC 62755669