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]

See also

• Bugyō
• Kinzan-bugyō
• Kinza - Gold za (monopoly office or guild).
• Ginza - Silver za (monopoly office or guild).
• Shuza - Cinnabar za (monopoly office or guild)

Notes

References

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