著者

高嶋 雅明

出版者

社会経済史学会

雑誌

社会経済史学 (ISSN:00380113)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.37, no.2, pp.154-177,215-21, 1971

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It is the purpose of this paper to clarify the reason why small national banks could play a role in the foreign trade finance. We would also like to show its effects on an individual bank. The attention will be focused upon the followings: (1) To re-confirm the characteristics of Korean trade by showing an example of documentary finance, (2) To clarify the characteristics of documentary finance in Korean trade, and (3) To shown the role of documentary finance in management of individual banks. First, we sill see that the existence of the 102the National Bank depended upon the documentary finance, then show the relationship between Korean trade and the finance of the bank. During the decade of the Meiji tenth, the finance of the 102th Bank did not concern with the imports of rice and beans-the important articles in Korean trade at that period-but with the exchange of the 18th National Bank of Nagasaki. In the Meiji twenties, the documentary finance of the 102th Bank expanded under the characteristic structure of Korean trade: lawns and shirtings from Nagasaki to Korea, and rice and beans from Korea to Osaka. However, Korean trade at that time was quite speculative, and the 102 Bank fell into trouble as a result of a failure in rice trade. The 18th Bank not only helped the 102th Bank financially, but also expanded its activity in Korea.