Nobunaga's Free Market Revolution That Changed Japan
What was rakuichi-rakuza? We explain Nobunaga's revolutionary economic policy — abolishing guild monopolies — in terms modern middle schoolers can relate to, comparing it to today's flea market apps.
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Nobunaga’s rakuichi-rakuza policy abolished guild monopolies that had strangled commerce for generations. Anyone could now trade freely. It’s comparable to opening up today’s flea market apps to everyone instead of licensed vendors only.
[To be created] Reconstructed castle town of Azuchi