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  • ...ake to a rice broker and exchange for the actual value in gold, silver, or rice. ...since then, and existed prior to the [[1697]] establishment of the Dôjima Rice Exchange, since [[Ihara Saikaku]], in his [[1688]] publication ''[[Nihon ei
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  • #REDIRECT [[Rice broker]]
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  • ...1868]], and dissolved entirely in 1939, being absorbed into the Government Rice Agency (日本米穀株式会社). ...hundred years before, developed an increasingly monopolistic grasp on the rice trade, determining prices not only within Osaka, but in the entire [[Kinai]
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  • Elisha E. Rice served as a United States consul based in [[Hakodate]]. He arrived there in [[Category:Foreigners|Rice, Elisha]]
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  • Elisha E. Rice served as a United States consul based in [[Hakodate]]. He arrived there in [[Category:Foreigners|Rice, Elisha]]
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  • ...onspiring to control rice prices through the [[Dojima Rice Exchange|Dôjima Rice Exchange]].
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  • #REDIRECT [[Rice broker]]
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  • ...ake to a rice broker and exchange for the actual value in gold, silver, or rice. ...since then, and existed prior to the [[1697]] establishment of the Dôjima Rice Exchange, since [[Ihara Saikaku]], in his [[1688]] publication ''[[Nihon ei
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  • ...[[Shinto shrine]] in [[Kamakura]] dedicated to [[Inari]], ''[[kami]]'' of rice. ...that when [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]] was in [[Izu province|Izu]], the god of rice appeared to him in a dream, telling him "the time to destroy the [[Taira cl
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  • ...nce|Ômi province]]. Shinshichi began selling secondhand clothes out of the rice shop, and in [[1831]], opened his own shop, calling it Takashimaya, and sel
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  • ...performing ritual making his first offering of rice as Emperor, consuming rice, and becoming imbued with the spiritual power of his forebears.
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  • ...hu'' (or "Japanese alcohol") can be used to refer specifically to Japanese rice-wine.</ref> Saké is a rice wine that was historically the chief alcoholic beverage in Japan.
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  • ...nstructor who was given the rank of ''karita bugyô'' (or, Commissioner for rice fields) during the Tokugawa attack on Ueda in 1600. During the siege he fou
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  • .... The distinctive mineral qualities of Okinawan water, combined with white rice powder, allow the large mounds of foam to be formed. It is said that bukubu
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  • ...n fiefs were distributed, their wealth was often assessed in the amount of rice (or equivalent goods) that the administrator could expect to receive in tax ...orld Editions, 2007. p34.</ref> making samurai relying on stipends paid in rice less and less wealthy relative to the [[chonin|merchant class]], who earned
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  • ...1868]], and dissolved entirely in 1939, being absorbed into the Government Rice Agency (日本米穀株式会社). ...hundred years before, developed an increasingly monopolistic grasp on the rice trade, determining prices not only within Osaka, but in the entire [[Kinai]
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  • ...e province]]. Known for his intelligence, he had made sure to stock enough rice prior to [[Oda Nobunaga|Oda Nobunaga's]] invasion in [[1569]] to give the K
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  • ...e retainer [[stipends]] to a mere four ''[[Japanese Measurements|gô]]'' of rice per day. The labor shortage led to a considerable rise in wages which conti
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  • ...e reason the wolf was so highly regarded is that it was a protector of the rice field against boars, deer, and hares. (Knight, 139-40) ...apan have traditionally thought that in the winter, after the harvest, the rice field deity acends to the mountain and becomes the mountain deity (Hirayama
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  • ...op, in connection with the activities of the [[Dojima Rice Exchange|Dôjima Rice Exchange]].
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  • ...on of rice, other grains, and specie. Generally, stipends paid entirely in rice were of higher prestige, while those paid primarily in domainal [[currency| ...pay out of his account. Alternatively, the rice brokers would convert the rice, grain, or other goods into coin.
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  • ...one year's supply of rice at 5 ''gô''/''masu'' (i.e. roughly five cups) of rice per day.</ref> Most of the regular members of the guards had large homes in
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  • ...th special zeal, determined to become a worthy samurai. He gave up eating rice so as not to take on weight, and refrained from contact with women for ten ...mic problems in regards to samurai life. He condemned meaningless waste of rice and talent along with idleness among the samurai class. Banzan's goal was t
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  • ...[Kariya castle]]. [[1576]] [[Oda Nobunaga]] charged that Nobutomo had sold rice to [[Akiyama Nobutomo]] (a rival [[Takeda clan|Takeda]] general) during the
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  • ...an inch (one ''sun'') tall. These included traveling across Osaka Bay in a rice bowl.
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  • *[[Dojima Rice Exchange|Dôjima Rice Exchange]] in [[Osaka]] is established.
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  • *[[Dojima Rice Exchange|Dôjima Rice Exchange]] is formally sanctioned, sponsored, and organized by the shogunat
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  • ...ogunate]] institutes a price floor on rice. Merchants in [[Edo]] must sell rice for no less than one ''[[ryo|ryô]]'' per 1.4 ''[[koku]]'', and in [[Osaka]
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  • ...ate a number of festivals relating to the planting, growth, and harvest of rice across the year. Rice-planting begins early in the year on [[Iriomote]], [[Ishigaki]], and the su
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  • ...doused in a sweet [[miso]] sauce. Aburi-mochi, along with ''[[sekihan]]'' (rice with [[azuki|red beans]]), are associated with the Yasurai Festival, dating
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  • ...other goods or commodities, or hard [[currency]], were substituted for the rice payment. The tax rate usually varied from village to village, or even withi
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  • ...from [[Izumi province]], he was head of the Karakane family of shippers & rice warehousers. He regularly interacted with local [[literati]] including [[Gi
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  • ...struck the [[Seto Inland Sea]] region and [[Kyushu]] in [[1732]], causing rice prices throughout the region to increase by a factor of seven. Roughly 22%
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  • * 1671/7 [[Kawamura Zuiken]] establishes the [[Tokai route]] to ship rice from [[Mutsu province]] to [[Edo]].
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  • ...roducts such as seaweed. Since all tribute/taxes were nominally counted in rice, the estate was made to appear, on paper, as if the village paid its ''neng
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  • ...riots break out in [[Osaka]]; city residents band together and attack the rice storehouses.
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  • ''Gojômaisen'' were ships employed by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] to carry rice collected from shogunate lands (''tenryô'') as taxes (''[[nengu|nengû]]''
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  • ...ma, or sickle. This was an agrarian implement for cutting plants, such as rice, in the field, but also used in stables to quickly harvest grass for the ho
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  • *Locusts attack crops around the [[Seto Inland Sea]], and rice prices soar to seven times the previous rate, marking the beginning of the
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  • ...hīdào''), also known as the Rice Thieves (''Mǐ zéi'') or the Five Pecks of Rice (''Wǔdǒu mǐ''), were a rebel group whose actions contributed significant
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  • ...eir own household tools, and were to eat barley or other grains, and not [[rice]].
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  • ...6-67, 89.; Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', 125-126.</ref> and with introducing rice cultivation and other technologies. ...ith them cultural customs as well as technologies such as iron working and rice agriculture.<ref>Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', 125.</ref> Some have gone so f
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  • ...into the natural stone, and excavations have revealed old pottery, beads, rice and wheat, and other materials. The ''[[Ryukyukoku yuraiki|Ryûkyû-koku yu
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  • ...ilarly, the Osaka-based warehousing guilds (''[[tonya|ton'ya]]'') handling rice and other goods from these regions grew in number from fewer than 400 merch ...the Sea of Japan coastal ports, and Hokkaidô, were myriad, and included [[rice]], [[salt]], textiles, [[sake|saké]], [[candles]], dried fish, [[soba]] no
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  • ...duced one ''koku'' of rice, and a ''chô'' of land produced ten ''koku'' of rice.</ref> *1 '''Hyô''' (俵) = 1 "bale" or "bag" of rice = 4 '''to''' (斗)
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  • ...t family from Jigozen-mura, [[Hiroshima prefecture]], he sold his family's rice fields to be able to afford the construction of the bridge and bell tower g
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  • ...f [[Mitarai]]. In actual practice, the payments ended up being in not only rice, but accompanied by some amount of copper or bronze, iron or steel, and spu
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  • *1726/4 [[Edo]]-based wholesalers dealing in rice, lamp oil, or any of thirteen other specified products, are required by the
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  • ...authorization. Korea was also obliged to provide 100 ''[[koku]]'' worth of rice and beans to Tsushima han each year, and to allow Tsushima agents to conduc
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  • *Merchants dealing in oil, rice, and certain other commodities are ordered by the shogunate to form protect
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  • ...nning, and growing certain kinds of vegetables and other crops (other than rice).
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  • ...e played a notable role in guiding or teaching the locals in techniques of rice agriculture and fishing, and in matters of morals and ethics, for which he
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  • ...attacked storehouses, or the homes of elites they believed to be hoarding rice.
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  • ..., 常平倉) in the east and west parts of Heian-kyô, and sells government-owned rice in order to increase the available supply and lower prices.
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  • *1778/1 The number of [[rice broker]]s (''fudasashi'') in [[Edo]] reaches 109.
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  • ''Jidaka'' bears comparison to ''kokudaka'', the amount of rice produced (or equivalent agricultural production) in the domain, as both ref
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  • ...imyô'' domain, or "''[[han]]''," expressed as a measure of ''[[koku]]'' of rice. As a representation of the domain's wealth, ''kokudaka'' determined the am ...on in other products, such as wheat or beans, into an equivalent amount in rice, with the distance from market and other considerations factored in as well
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  • *1833/7/16 [[Bakufu]] bans transporting rice.
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  • ...many as 2,000 vessels might visit Niigata in a year, carrying not only tax rice, but a wide variety of other goods, including marine products from [[Ezo]],
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  • ...[[Tosa han]], the special tax was renamed in 1789 ''demai'' ("a portion of rice taken out"), eliminating the pretense that it was a loan to be repaid in th
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  • ...was re-designated a village (''mura''). Much of the area was employed for rice cultivation and [[Satsuma imo]] sweet potatoes, but Mawashi also included n
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  • ...t modern museum founded in Kyoto, established in [[1875]], and housed in a rice storehouse on the grounds of the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace]]. That museum, op
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  • They smuggled rice, rapeseed oil, vegetable wax, [[sugar]], and a number of other products to
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  • ...nal, collectively supportive, lifestyles. Some of the chief foods included rice, wheat, beans, and gourds, and people raised [[horses]] for use in the fiel
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  • ..."[[kariage|borrowing]]" against retainer stipends. The increased stores of rice amassed as a result of not exporting it also helped the domain survive a co
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  • ...goods as it exported, and also serving as a major financial center, with [[rice brokers|merchant networks]] at the head of massive flows of credit & loans. ...strong that its markets - and not those in Edo - determined the prices of rice, gold, and other commodities, and thus the value or exchange rates of coina
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  • ...i Islands]], and for sending out Satsuma products such as ceramics and tax rice, to be sent to the [[Satsuma Osaka mansion|domain's warehouses in Osaka]].
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  • ...seum was first established as the Honolulu Academy of Arts in 1927 by Anne Rice Cooke, who established it in her home, a building designed by Bertram Goodh
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  • ...kku'' - 9/9, [[Chrysanthemum Festival]]. A festival in connection with the rice harvest, and related to one in China which involved the drinking of chrysan
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  • ...to an epitaph written by his father, Sado was killed by being locked in a rice chest.<ref>Gallery labels, National Museum of Korea.[https://www.flickr.com
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  • ...government moved to reorganize or reduce stipend payments - the payment in rice from their lord which most samurai had relied upon as their chief or sole s
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  • ...tached to the Noh stage, a small altar would be set up, where offerings of rice and ''saké'' were set up, and a box containing the mask and fan to be used
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  • The Yayoi Period is marked by the introduction of wet [[rice cultivation]] and certain other technologies, innovations in societal organ Some scholars argue that rice cultivation was first introduced by people from the Asian mainland who firs
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  • ...r products), to more strictly having to be paid either in coin, cotton, or rice.
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • *The shogunate licenses 109 [[rice brokers]] and permits them to form a union.
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  • ...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
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  • ...granted a [[stipend]] of 2000 ''[[Japanese_measurements#Volume|hyô]]'' of rice, and rank equivalent to just below the ''kobushin bugyô''.
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  • ...which produced a wide variety of electronics, including the first electric rice cooker, sold under the Shirokiya brand. ''Tôtsûken'' eventually split fro
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  • * 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
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  • The ''Tokujô Maru'' was a rice cargo ship which became castaway in [[1813]]. Its crew were perhaps the fir
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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
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  • ...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]]''
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  • ...|Ryûkyû]] and [[Amami Islands|Amami]] in exchange for salt, whalebone, and rice from Chôshû.<ref>Hellyer, 187.</ref>
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  • ...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,
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  • ...g each samurai household, at times, with as little as a single ''masu'' of rice per day.<ref name=taiyo/>
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  • ...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
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  • ...iod]], especially from those regions which were not particularly strong in rice production.
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  • ...he cultivation of mulberry trees, [[silk]]worms (sericulture), [[wet-field rice]], and [[ramie]], noting the absence of any major livestock. Their [[yumi|b
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...prospect of the [[Meiji government]] abolishing their elite status and the rice stipends which had traditionally been the samurai's chief or sole source of
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  • *1784/2/28 Farmers in Tama county ([[Musahi province|Musashi]]) attack rice dealers.(Bushû Murayama riot)
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  • ...sources credit Chikuzen with being the first place in Japan to have [[wet-rice agriculture]] and metal tools, introduced during the [[Yayoi period]], and
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  • ...han by ''daimyô'' [[Hotta Masayoshi]], and given a stipend of 15 bales of rice and 2''-nin fuchi'', and the rank of ''kaisho bussho''. There, he produced
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  • *Taxes in [[Okinawa Prefecture]] traditionally paid in salt or rice are now permitted to be paid in cash; sugar taxes continue to be paid "in k
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  • ...their own household tools, and were to eat barley or other grains, and not rice.
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  • ...oku]]'' ships regularly coming and going, loading and unloading cargoes of rice, firewood, charcoal, and other materials. Smaller canal boats carried peopl
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  • ...re in the world until the 19th century.<ref name=worlds/> New strains of [[rice]] which ripened more quickly, allowing for a shorter growing season, were i
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  • ...ased, and migrants between the three regions introduced the cultivation of rice, wheat, barley, and other crops, and the raising of livestock into the Ryuk ...mountainous and heavily forested, and is not particularly well-suited for rice cultivation. Many settlers who entered Okinawa from the north eventually fo
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  • ...lords of [[Satsuma han]], who often took out loans from [[Osaka]]-based [[rice broker|merchants]] in order to do so.
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