著者

田中 惣五郎

出版者

日本社会学会

雑誌

社会学評論 (ISSN:00215414)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.3, no.1, pp.16-29, 1952

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In the consolidation of the modern state, advanced sections of the community often lead other, less-advanced ones and sometimes enforce consolidation by conquest. In Japan, the four feudal clans of Satsuma, Choshu, Tosa and Higo formed a state through a secure consolidation with the emperor system, and thus brought into being a nation ruled by a feudal clique.