東洋文化研究所では、東文研セミナー "Ottoman Wood" を2026年4月2日(木)に下記の要領で開催することになりました。本セミナーでは、オスマン帝国における材木を研究する二人の研究者をお招きし、このテーマに関して報告をしていただきます。
パリ・シテ大学教授のオリヴィエ・ブケ氏は、オスマン帝国の近世から近代まで幅広く研究し、Les pachas du sultan: Essai sur les agents supérieurs de l’État ottoman, 1839-1909 (2007), Vie et mort d’un grand vizir: Halil Hamid Pacha (1736-1785): Biographie de l’Empire ottoman (2022), Pourquoi l'Empire ottoman?: Six siècles d'histoire (2022) などの著書があります。最近、オスマン帝国における材木に関心をもって研究を進めているブケ氏は、2025年に "Firewood Provisioning in the 17th-Century Ottoman State," Der Islam 102(2) という論文を刊行しました。本セミナーでは、オスマン帝国における薪木の計量法について、労働・技術・エネルギーの歴史と関連させて報告します。
東京外国語大学大学院の岩田和馬氏は、18世紀イスタンブルにおける船着場の社会構造について博士論文を準備しています。「18世紀イスタンブルの荷役組合:内部構造に関する考察」『オリエント』63(2) (2021), “Producing, Transporting, and Distributing Charcoal: From the View of the Charcoal Merchants’ Guild in the Eighteenth Century in Istanbul and Its Surrounding Regions,” YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 5 (2023) などの論文があります。本セミナーでは、イスタンブルの材木商組合の組織について報告します。
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日時:2026年4月2日(木) 15:00〜17:45
会場:東京大学東洋文化研究所3階第1会議室/Zoom
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司会:秋葉淳(東洋文化研究所)
15:00〜15:05 司会挨拶
15:05〜16:10 岩田和馬(東京外国語大学)
"The Istanbul Timber Merchants’ Guild and Odunkapı in the Eighteenth Century: A Hub of Timber Distribution"
"çeki or araba? Measuring Firewood Weights and Volumes (Ottoman Empire, 17th Century)"
17:30〜17:45 総合討論
報告要旨:
The Istanbul Timber Merchants’ Guild and Odunkapı in the Eighteenth Century: A Hub of Timber Distribution (Kazuma Iwata)
This paper reconceptualizes eighteenth-century Istanbul guilds (esnâf) by analyzing the timber merchants’ guild (keresteci esnâfı) as a spatially embedded organization. While Ottoman guilds have been studied primarily in terms of economic regulation or state–society relations, their configuration within urban space remains under-theorized. This paper argues that guild organization cannot be fully understood without reference to spatial concentration and urban anchoring. The case of the timber merchants’ guild shows that Odunkapı functioned not merely as a commercial district but as a nucleus of authority: a large proportion of merchants’ shops were located there, and guild wardens were disproportionately drawn from this area. At the same time, the guild exercised jurisdiction beyond the city walls and outside the Istanbul kazası, including Tophane and Üsküdar. This uneven spatial structure challenges the conventional model of horizontally organized guilds, suggesting instead that authority was grounded in control over key urban nodes.
çeki or araba ? Measuring Firewood Weights and Volumes (Ottoman Empire, 17th Century) (Olivier Bouquet)
Based on the principle that the best introduction to historical metrology consists of as accurate a knowledge as possible of a good at the time, the study focuses on one that has been little studied but was central to Ottoman life: firewood. It distinguishes between the units of weight and volume used, based on a cross-referencing of 17th-century accounting and legal sources concerning the capitals of Edirne and Istanbul. It establishes why the multiplicity of weights and capacities was linked to the requirements of intermodal transport. Beyond approaches focused on the inventory of measurement units, the search for synchronic equivalents in a context of great regional diversity, or the establishment of correspondences with the standardised metric system introduced in 1869, the study invites us to link metrology to a a combined history of work, techniques and energies.
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