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• Hirosaki han
  ...ven as late as [[1877]], the entirety of Mutsu province's exports were 80% rice.<ref>Ravina, 119.</ref> ...opulation, which strained the domain's ability to support them solely with rice stipends, many lower-ranking samurai were resettled in the countryside, and
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• Amami Islands
  ...e70/> The main agricultural products on the islands traditionally included rice, [[Satsumaimo]] (sweet potato), [[sugar]] cane, papaya, banana, and pineapp ..., Satsuma put into place a system in which islanders could trade sugar for rice and other goods they needed. Though production was done entirely by islande
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• 1722
  *The shogunate licenses 109 [[rice brokers]] and permits them to form a union.
  2 KB (297 words) - 19:03, 29 September 2016
• Single Whip Reform
  ...ift in [[Ming Dynasty]] China's tax structure, from payments in kind (e.g. rice, grain, textiles) to tax payments in [[silver]], implemented throughout the
  2 KB (338 words) - 13:04, 16 April 2016
• Udono Nagatoshi
  ...granted a [[stipend]] of 2000 ''[[Japanese_measurements#Volume|hyô]]'' of rice, and rank equivalent to just below the ''kobushin bugyô''.
  2 KB (322 words) - 02:05, 13 August 2020
• Shirokiya
  ...which produced a wide variety of electronics, including the first electric rice cooker, sold under the Shirokiya brand. ''Tôtsûken'' eventually split fro
  4 KB (540 words) - 17:26, 29 January 2012
• Awada Mahito
  * 14/11/704 Awada Mahito was granted twenty cho of wet rice fields and 1,000 koku of grain because he had been sent as an ambassador to
  4 KB (645 words) - 12:33, 9 June 2012
• Tokujo Maru
  The ''Tokujô Maru'' was a rice cargo ship which became castaway in [[1813]]. Its crew were perhaps the fir
  2 KB (391 words) - 22:41, 11 December 2015
• Waegwan
  ...id-17th century onwards, the Sô also received roughly 8300 ''[[koku]]'' of rice annually, an important source of food for both samurai officials and common ...ing the missions from Tsushima, maintaining the ''Waegwan'', and providing rice and other goods to the missions, exceeded the economic benefits. Further, t
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• Ronin
  ...eceived a set stipend, given out in terms of ''[[koku]]'' (measurements of rice). Those samurai who were the [[shogun|shogun's]] direct retainers were know ...nt famines. Even rich harvests and the consequent lowering of the price of rice would not give much relief to those who are already hard up. Every year the
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• Sugar
  ...arsh; instead, islanders were now permitted to directly exchange sugar for rice and other foodstuffs they needed.<ref name=hellyer95/> ...ôzaemon]], the islanders were forced in the 1820s-1830s to drain all their rice paddies and convert them to fields of sugar cane; men ages 15 to 60 and wom
  10 KB (1,611 words) - 08:35, 27 February 2020
• Ooku
  ...of Ôoku women, each of whom enjoyed stipends paid out in a combination of rice and gold.<ref name=corbett/> Stipends ranged widely, from four ''[[koku]]''
  3 KB (483 words) - 17:04, 3 November 2019
• Sat-Cho Alliance
  ...|Ryûkyû]] and [[Amami Islands|Amami]] in exchange for salt, whalebone, and rice from Chôshû.<ref>Hellyer, 187.</ref>
  3 KB (430 words) - 01:58, 8 December 2015
• Takakura
  ...Asian region. In the Ryukyus, such storehouses were used not only to store rice and other grains, but also various seeds and nuts, as well as brown sugar,
  3 KB (490 words) - 21:13, 4 April 2020
• Tahara han
  ...g each samurai household, at times, with as little as a single ''masu'' of rice per day.<ref name=taiyo/>
  5 KB (659 words) - 21:32, 2 July 2012
• Nikolai Rezanov
  ...furs, walrus ivory, fish, leather goods, and woolen cloth for [[silk]], [[rice]], and [[copper]], as well as other luxury goods such as [[porcelain]]s and
  3 KB (453 words) - 20:54, 9 April 2017
• Salt
  ...iod]], especially from those regions which were not particularly strong in rice production.
  3 KB (533 words) - 23:12, 24 January 2015
• Wei zhi
  ...he cultivation of mulberry trees, [[silk]]worms (sericulture), [[wet-field rice]], and [[ramie]], noting the absence of any major livestock. Their [[yumi|b
  3 KB (516 words) - 14:48, 6 October 2014
• Zusho Shozaemon
  ...e in [[sulfur]] and a number of other products. As the quality of exported rice, rapeseed, and other products improved, so too did the reputation and thus ...anded the plantation-like exploitation of the island by mandating that all rice paddies on the islands be drained and replaced with fields of sugar cane. M
  9 KB (1,479 words) - 07:54, 14 June 2022
• Kaga Edo mansion
  ...e, covered less than 3,000 ''tsubo'', and served mainly to manage areas of rice fields which contributed to supporting the feeding and funding of the other
  3 KB (504 words) - 10:13, 14 November 2021

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