| In general, Japanese scholars of the Chinese classics and the Confucianism during the Edo period vaguely understood that the monetary system and the feudal system were hardly compatible, though not contradictory, and that it was difficult for the money economy to return to the object economy. |
おしなべて江戸時代の漢学者・儒学者は、貨幣制度と封建制度との、矛盾するとは言わないまでも、相両立したがいこと、貨幣経済が物品経済に戻りにくいことをおぼろげには感じていた。 |