ABSTRACT
In the last chapter, the problems of landownership and agriculture were given special emphasis. It is chiefly the Japanese writers who place well in the foreground this aspect of the ‘internal’ problems of the period. They render a good service in doing so. The fundamental instability of this otherwise brilliant and flourishing epoch will never be fully understood, until the deep background of its rural crisis has been appreciated. This is another major field of study in this subject, of special importance; though the variety of trends and forms, and the confusion of their effects, is so great that we may perhaps never solve the riddles of the time.
