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''Daimyô'' and lower-ranking samurai alike are believed to have themselves enjoyed roughly 35% of the face-value of their stipends (or ''[[kokudaka]]'' in the case of ''daimyô''), with the rest being paid to retainers or otherwise not coming into the samurai's own personal wallet. For samurai resident in [[Edo]], stipends were paid out of a granary office in [[Asakusa]], in three installments over the course of a year. One-quarter of the annual stipend was paid in spring, one-quarter in summer, and the remaining one-half in the winter. Though stipends were nominally measured in ''koku'' of rice, samurai were often paid in a mixture of rice and gold [[currency|coinage]].<ref>Craig, Teruko (trans.). ''Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai''. University of Arizona Press, 1988. p.xv.</ref>
''Daimyô'' and lower-ranking samurai alike are believed to have themselves enjoyed roughly 35% of the face-value of their stipends (or ''[[kokudaka]]'' in the case of ''daimyô''), with the rest being paid to retainers or otherwise not coming into the samurai's own personal wallet. For samurai resident in [[Edo]], stipends were paid out of a granary office in [[Asakusa]], in three installments over the course of a year. One-quarter of the annual stipend was paid in spring, one-quarter in summer, and the remaining one-half in the winter. Though stipends were nominally measured in ''koku'' of rice, samurai were often paid in a mixture of rice and gold [[currency|coinage]].<ref>Craig, Teruko (trans.). ''Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai''. University of Arizona Press, 1988. p.xv.</ref>
The size of ships was also typically stated by its cargo capacity, measured in ''koku''. By chance, this unit works out to roughly 1/10th of the conventional unit of ship size today, namely tons of displacement. Thus, a 1500-''koku'' ship can be said to have been roughly 150 tons in modern parlance.<ref>Michelle Damian, “Archaeology through Art: Japanese Vernacular Craft in Late Edo-period Woodblock Prints” (MA thesis, East Carolina University, 2010), 105-106.</ref> That was the typical size for, for example, ''[[higaki kaisen]]'' cargo ships which carried goods between [[Osaka]] and Edo.<ref>Gallery labels, "Higaki-kaisen," [[Edo-Tokyo Museum]].</ref>
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