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• Rice broker
  ...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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• Rice brokers
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• Dojima Rice Exchange
  ...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
  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
  Elisha E. Rice served as a United States consul based in [[Hakodate]]. He arrived there in [[Category:Foreigners|Rice, Elisha]]
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• 1733
  ...onspiring to control rice prices through the [[Dojima Rice Exchange|Dôjima Rice Exchange]].
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• Rice brokers
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• Rice broker
  ...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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• Sasuke Inari Shrine
  ...[[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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• Iida Shinshichi I
  ...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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• Daijosai
  ...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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• Sake
  ...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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• Ono Tadaaki
  ...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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• Bukubukucha
  .... 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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• Koku
  ...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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• Dojima Rice Exchange
  ...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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• Toriyao Iwami no kami
  ...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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• Great Tenmei Famine
  ...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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• Okami (folklore)
  ...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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• 1710
  ...op, in connection with the activities of the [[Dojima Rice Exchange|Dôjima Rice Exchange]].
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• Stipends
  ...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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• Hachioji Guards
  ...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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• Kumazawa Banzan
  ...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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• Mizuno Nobutomo
  ...[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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• Issun boshi
  ...an inch (one ''sun'') tall. These included traveling across Osaka Bay in a rice bowl.
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• 1697
  *[[Dojima Rice Exchange|Dôjima Rice Exchange]] in [[Osaka]] is established.
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• 1773
  *[[Dojima Rice Exchange|Dôjima Rice Exchange]] is formally sanctioned, sponsored, and organized by the shogunat
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• 1735
  ...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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• Sakishima seasonal folk festivals
  ...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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• Ichiwa
  ...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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• Nengu
  ...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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• Karakane Baisho
  ...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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• Kyoho Famine
  ...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
  * 1671/7 [[Kawamura Zuiken]] establishes the [[Tokai route]] to ship rice from [[Mutsu province]] to [[Edo]].
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• Yugeshima
  ...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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• 1787
  ...riots break out in [[Osaka]]; city residents band together and attack the rice storehouses.
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• Gojomaisen
  ''Gojômaisen'' were ships employed by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] to carry rice collected from shogunate lands (''tenryô'') as taxes (''[[nengu|nengû]]''
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• Kusarigamajutsu
  ...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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• 1732
  *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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• Celestial Masters Rebellion
  ...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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• Keian Proclamation
  ...eir own household tools, and were to eat barley or other grains, and not [[rice]].
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• Amamikyo
  ...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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• Yara gusuku
  ...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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• Kitamaebune
  ...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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• Japanese Measurements
  ...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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• Nakatani Shinshichi
  ...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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• Hiroshima han
  ...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
  *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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• Kiyu Treaty
  ...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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• 1724
  *Merchants dealing in oil, rice, and certain other commodities are ordered by the shogunate to form protect
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• Former Natives Protection Law
  ...nning, and growing certain kinds of vegetables and other crops (other than rice).
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• Taira no Yukimori
  ...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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• Tenpo Famine
  ...attacked storehouses, or the homes of elites they believed to be hoarding rice.
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• 867
  ..., 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
  *1778/1 The number of [[rice broker]]s (''fudasashi'') in [[Edo]] reaches 109.
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• Jidaka
  ''Jidaka'' bears comparison to ''kokudaka'', the amount of rice produced (or equivalent agricultural production) in the domain, as both ref
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• Kokudaka
  ...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
  *1833/7/16 [[Bakufu]] bans transporting rice.
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• Niigata
  ...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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• Kariage
  ...[[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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• Mawashi
  ...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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• Kyoto National Museum
  ...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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• Hamazaki family
  They smuggled rice, rapeseed oil, vegetable wax, [[sugar]], and a number of other products to
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• Kofun Period
  ...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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• Nyui Mitsugi
  ..."[[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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• Osaka
  ...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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• Satsumasendai
  ...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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• Honolulu Museum of Art
  ...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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• Gosekku
  ...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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• Crown Prince Sado
  ...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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• Shizoku rebellions
  ...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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• Okina
  ...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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• Yayoi Period
  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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• Korean currency
  ...r products), to more strictly having to be paid either in coin, cotton, or rice.
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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.
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• 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
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• Udono Nagatoshi
  ...granted a [[stipend]] of 2000 ''[[Japanese_measurements#Volume|hyô]]'' of rice, and rank equivalent to just below the ''kobushin bugyô''.
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• Shirokiya
  ...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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• 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
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• Tokujo Maru
  The ''Tokujô Maru'' was a rice cargo ship which became castaway in [[1813]]. Its crew were perhaps the fir
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• 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
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• 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]]''
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• Sat-Cho Alliance
  ...|Ryûkyû]] and [[Amami Islands|Amami]] in exchange for salt, whalebone, and rice from Chôshû.<ref>Hellyer, 187.</ref>
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• 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,
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• Tahara han
  ...g each samurai household, at times, with as little as a single ''masu'' of rice per day.<ref name=taiyo/>
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• 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
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• Salt
  ...iod]], especially from those regions which were not particularly strong in rice production.
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• Satsuma Rebellion
  ...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
  *1784/2/28 Farmers in Tama county ([[Musahi province|Musashi]]) attack rice dealers.(Bushû Murayama riot)
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• Chikuzen province
  ...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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• Hosokawa Tadayoshi
  ...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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• 1882
  *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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• Sumptuary regulations
  ...their own household tools, and were to eat barley or other grains, and not rice.
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• Fushimi
  ...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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• Song Dynasty
  ...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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• Ryukyu Islands
  ...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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• Ryukyuan tribute missions to China
  ...lords of [[Satsuma han]], who often took out loans from [[Osaka]]-based [[rice broker|merchants]] in order to do so.
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• Nagaoka han
  ...ain consisted of relatively impoverished agricultural areas. Though Echigo rice was famous and much desired throughout much of the realm, the "snow country
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• Tokikuni family
  ...18]], and served as the local ''[[daikan]]'', managing storehouses holding rice and salt paid as taxes by others in the region.
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• Taira Munemori
  When the rice stores had sufficiently recovered to allow offensive action, Munemori dispa
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• Kamei Korenori
  ...ean Invasions|invasions of Korea]], they could be permitted to only supply rice and funding. Hideyoshi was reportedly impressed with Yoshihisa's close rela
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• Currency
  ...paid in rice (or equivalents), and samurai would be paid their stipends in rice. ...then instituted official exchange values (''kokahô'', 沽価法) for silk, gold, rice, and certain other commodities, in order to standardize the amounts paid to
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• Subinfeudation
  ...estiture, i.e. subinfeudation, or [[stipends]] measured in ''[[koku]]'' of rice. By the end of the 17th century, 80% of domains eliminated all retainer fie
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• 1866
  **6 The farmers in [[Musashi province]] riot over the rising price of rice.([[Bushu Ikki|Bushû ikki]])
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• Godai Tomoatsu
  ...nues by shipping products from [[Ezo]], such as [[konbu|kelp]], along with rice, raw silk, and the like directly to Shanghai. This was presented as a radic
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• Zheng He
  ....<ref name=schiro245/> Each ship cost roughly 1,000 piculs (担, ''tan'') of rice, and are said to have been equipped with incredible luxuries, including com ...reasure ships, despite their size, were not bringing back tons and tons of rice, precious metals, or other commodities. But, some scholars have suggested,
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• Chuzan
  ...[shochu|shôchû]]'' and ''soju'') in its use of Thai rather than East Asian rice.
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• Tosa han
  ...nd area, much of this area is quite mountainous, and thus not suitable for rice cultivation; in addition to fishing and other maritime activities, much of ...f other products, such as millet, wheat, and beans.<ref name=merc36/> What rice was produced was taxed heavily, as was typical throughout much of the archi
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• Mori Heiemon
  ...urpluses, and breaking into government storehouses to steal and distribute rice. This only exacerbated an already quite tenuous financial situation. Mori t
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• Tenshikan
  ...as couriered to the Tenshikan each morning for the envoys' use, along with rice, noodles, poultry, fish, pork and goat, and other foodstuffs. In addition t
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• National holidays
  *Nov 23: ''Niinamesai'' (新嘗祭), or "Rice Harvest Festival," associated with the regeneration of the emperor's imperi
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• Bingata
  ...a is used to spread a resist paste (J: ''nori'' 糊) made of glutinous rice, rice bran, salt, water, and lime over the fabric, through the stencil. This is t
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• Suminokura Ryoi
  ...leaders, and acted as a representative in major financial transactions (in rice)<ref>Totman, Conrad. ''Early Modern Japan''. University of California Press
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• So clan
  ...fees and cargo taxes, as well as an annual stipend of 200 ''[[koku]]'' of rice. In exchange, the Sô were to take a lead role in ensuring that all Japanes
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• Tea
  ...:Genmaicha.jpg|right|thumb|250px|[[Genmaicha]], brewed from tea leaves and rice, as seen on the left; the resulting tea on the right.]]
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• Senso-ji
  ...nma prefecture]], in thanks for the help he received from a [[rice brokers|rice broker's]] family.
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• Nagasaki kaisho
  ...ary Treaty with the Dutch required the Dutch to purchase all their barley, rice flour, soybeans, and certain other goods from the clearinghouse, and the ex
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• Edo
  ...uses"), a placename which remains in use today. A number of [[rice brokers|rice brokers']] operations were based here; stipends for ''[[gokenin]]'' and ''[
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• Ryukyuan ships
  ...[koku]]''<ref>That is, a cargo capacity of roughly 1,150 ''koku'' worth of rice.</ref> to even double that size, and manned by crews of as many as 100-300
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• Yodo River
  ...i]], and elsewhere along the river, carrying goods such as [[charcoal]], [[rice]], [[salt]], and fish. They competed with boats based in Fushimi, often a b
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• Sengoku Period
  ...rigation networks or other public works in order to increase the amount of rice or other commodities produced, and thus increasing tax revenues, in order t
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• Chuzan denshin roku
  #Descriptions of customs, homes (architecture), rice and grains, household goods (dishes, [[Ryukyuan lacquerware|lacquerware]] p
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• Ama
  ...cal equipment. Divers typically wore nothing but a loincloth and a belt of rice-straw around their waist, which was used to hold their tools: a knife used
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• Ame no Hiboko
  ...'grain of rice'', comes from the grain that fell when &Ocirc;kuninushi ate rice ceremoniously on top of a mountain to secure the territory from the intrudi
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• Tsushima han
  ...to seven thousand ''koku'' of that was in barley cultivation, rather than rice.<ref name=hellyer140>Hellyer, 140.</ref> The enhanced ''[[kokudaka]]'' rank ...of Kyushu fed another 7,000; the remaining 7,000 or so people relied upon rice given the Sô as gifts from the Korean court - typically around 8,300 ''kok
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• Gozabune
  ...ich were hired or rented from Osaka-based merchants, who were then paid in rice upon the mission's arrival in Osaka. Villagers from within the domain were
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• Ryukyu-banashi
  ...ight|thumb|320px|A page from ''Ryûkyû-banashi'' depicting ''[[takakura]]'' rice storehouses, from a copy in the Sakamaki-Hawley Collection, University of H
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• Han people
  ...barley remained the chief crops in the north, people in the south took up rice as their staple crop, forming the core of dramatic cultural changes.
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• Hokkaido
  ...''[[kokudaka]]'' (numerical ranking of power or wealth based on a presumed rice productivity of their land). ...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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• Nozoki Yoshimasa
  ...of the practice of infanticide, Nozoki also had the domain begin to grant rice, cotton, building materials, or other supplies to individuals or families i
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• Fukuoka han
  ...orities (chiefly, the ''bugyô''). The ''ôjôya'' also oversaw tax payments, rice shipments; investigated fires, shipwrecks, and other such incidents; organi
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• Nuo
  ...Japan much earlier, however, possibly even being introduced alongside wet-rice agriculture, iron, and bronze in the [[Yayoi period]].
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• Hiraga Gennai
  ...he daimyô to be excused as well from his inherited position as overseer of rice storehouses in his native area of Shido-ura<!--志度浦-->. The following
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• Sho En
  ...r in which the island had suffered from a particularly severe drought, the rice patties of Kanamaru's family were found to be full of water; accused of hav
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• Nikko Toshogu
  ...urrency|gold ''ryô'']], 100 ''kanme'' of silver, and 1,000 ''[[koku]]'' of rice; by some estimates, this amounted to roughly 1/5th of Iemitsu's total inher
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• Matsumae han
  ...with, and the like, in exchange for Japanese goods including lacquerware, rice, saké, and swords and other metal tools. Some of the goods obtained from t
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• Kikaigashima
  ...000 people. It is said that "the five grains" (i.e. all the major staples: rice, wheat, beans, ''awa'' millet, and ''kibi'' millet) were all grown on the i
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• Revolt of the Three Feudatories
  ...fighting on wide open steppes; the wide rivers and many canals, dikes, and rice paddies of southern China had blocked out [[Jurchens]] and other horseridin
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• Jomon Period
  The end of the Jômon is marked by the introduction of [[wet rice cultivation]], quite possibly by a different people coming into the archipe
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• Yukatchu
  ...親雲上), ''[[satunushi]]'' (里之子) and others, each rank being accompanied by a rice stipend. These stipends were quite small as compared to those of Japanese s
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• Kentoshi
  ...ship, but since there are records of provisions of water and dried boiled rice, it is thought that this must have been the core of the diet, supplemented
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• Ainu
  Ainu never engaged in rice cultivation traditionally, but purchased rice from the Japanese, who called themselves ''Wajin'' (和人), among other te ...r for raising wheat and other grains rather than rice, a hardier strain of rice plant was instead developed, and other elements of Japanese culture and lif
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• Oshima Tomonojo
  ...upport itself when such an invasion inevitably led to Korea's shipments of rice and other provisions to Tsushima being severed. Believing that the shogunat
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• Chinese currency
  ...for gold or silver, a system not entirely dissimilar to that employed by [[rice brokers]] in Japan. Though initially functioning merely as representative o
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• Sho Tai
  ...ne had grown worse; the 28-year-old king ordered that the kingdom purchase rice & other grains and distribute them to address the famine. It is said no one
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• Hoi An
  ...valleys brought their own products, including [[silk]], spices, wood, and rice, to the port for trade. Chinese ships brought [[porcelain]]s, paper, books,
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• Shinto
  ...n earlier times, almost anything of value to the giver might be left (e.g. rice, water, paper fortunes, or ''[[ofuda]]'' talismans).
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• Northern Song Dynasty
  ...e's revenues were obtained through monopolies imposed on the production of rice wine, and key mineral resources such as salt, copper, and alum. Private com
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• Korean tribute missions to China
  ...paper, leopard, otter, deer, and squirrel skins, tea, pepper, sappanwood, rice, and bolts of cloth including cotton, hemp, [[ramie]], and silk. The amount
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• Za
  ...ssociations of wealthier peasant farmers who combined to sell oil, bamboo, rice, or other agricultural products in bulk; they occasionally allowed urban br
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• Yonezawa han
  ...opulation in the domain, which strained the domain's ability to support on rice stipends, many lower-ranking samurai were encouraged to continue to engage
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• Tokugawa seasonal observances
  ...o sekku'' - 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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• Ayutthaya
  ...d by [[Zheng He]] twice, in [[1408]] and [[1421]]. Its chief products were rice, raw cotton, rhino horn, deer hides, elephant teeth, and a variety of fores ...significant over the course of the 18th century.<ref>Shimada, 96.</ref> [[Rice]] remained Siam's chief export to China, while its exports to Japan shifted
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• Futagawa-juku
  ...ed in agriculture, saké brewing, and ran a store called the Ise-ya selling rice and other grains. Members of the Baba family continued to maintain the ''ho
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• Silver
  ...rs called ''kin'ya'' and ''gin'ya'' emerged, exchanging gold or silver for rice or other goods, in part in order to allow peasants and commoners to pay the
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• Edo Period
  ...nsification, emergence of merchant class, merchant organizations (guilds), rice brokers (banks), export of silver and copper, urbanization ...r funds wherever it was needed. The central exchange in Osaka, at [[Dojima Rice Exchange|Dôjima]], was organized in 1697 and formally sanctioned and suppo
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• Yanagita Kunio
  ...s for information, using as sources direct conversations with people like "rice farmers, deep-sea fishermen, and their wives" from "remote villages."<ref>S
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• Tribute
  ..., whether in the form of coin or precious metals, or that of goods such as rice, silk, aromatic woods, or horses, presented from one polity to another in a ...skins, ox horns, gold, silver, tea, paper, various types of textiles, and rice, along with goods obtained from Southeast Asia or elsewhere, such as sappan
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• Ryukyuan textiles
  ...ddish color by immersing it in the naturally iron-rich mud of the island's rice paddies.
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• Ryukyu seasonal observances
  In the [[Amami Islands]], many communities celebrate the end of the rice harvest with ceremonies and dances collectively called ''mihachigatsu''. Pr
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• Japanese immigration to Hawaii
  ...ed with homes, medical care, and firewood, and were promised low prices on rice. Contracts were for three years, working 26 days of the month, 12 hours a d ...orkers soon were able to enjoy standard, if quite basic, Japanese meals of rice, vegetables, miso soup, and tea, with the occasional fish. ''[[Sake|Saké]]
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• Year dates
  ...p years using them."); or a mixture of tradition and convenience (a bag of rice had stamped on it, "Product of the 17th year [of Heisei]. Milled on [20]05
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• Han
  ...erage, can be assumed to have been producing, or otherwise obtaining, more rice or other grain than was reflected in the ''kokudaka''.</ref>
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• Ryukyu Shobun
  ...time as they had been under the Kingdom. From [[1882]], taxes on salt and rice paid in kind were permitted to paid in cash instead; however, sugar taxes c
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• Commodore Matthew Perry
  ...of war, sending much of the townspeople of Edo into a panic. The prices of rice and other commodities skyrocketed as people stocked up. Many fled the city
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• Sukeroku
  ...me, Shinbei being a reference to the ''asagao [[senbei]]'' ("Morning Glory Rice Crackers") sold by [[Fujiya Seizaemon]]. The noodle vendor, similarly, was
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• Honjin
  ...wn cooks and a certain amount of foodstuffs and equipment with them (incl. rice, soy sauce, miso, cooking pots, and buckets), but had the ''honjin'' provid
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• Teppo
  ...caliber teppo (also known as “wall guns”) had large recoil, that bails of rice were used to support the gunners back. Large ''teppô'' known as ''ôzutsu'
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• Murakami clan (Chugoku)
  In the 1570s, the Noshima Murakami supported the Môri in supplying rice and other supplies to the [[Ishiyama Honganji]], in defiance of [[Oda Nobun
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• Kingdom of Ryukyu
  ...panese Measurements|kin]]'' of [[sugar]] substituted for 3,680 ''koku'' of rice. Tomiyama, “Ryukyu Kingdom Diplomacy with Japan and the Ming and Qing Dyn
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• Chinese Imperial examinations
  ...cy late in life. Those who did pass the exams earned a stipend paid out in rice, and an exemption from tax obligations. Someone who did not advance to the
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• Ming Dynasty
  Song agricultural advances, including new strains of rice, combined with the expansion of lands under cultivation, contributed to a c ...ivity was severely hindered by the great numbers of dikes, canals, and wet rice paddies crisscrossing the landscape. Lineage groups that enabled extensive
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• Takeda Shingen
  ...religious establishments) and with the option of payment in either gold or rice (a forerunner, in some ways, to the later Kandaka system).
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• Meiji period
  ...gained or lost real value as the price of rice rose or fell (the amount of rice being paid, e.g. X number of ''[[koku]]'' per village, being fixed), under
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• Taiwan
  ...the island reached 100,000. They grew and exported considerable amounts of rice and sugar, as well as engaging in businesses such as shipbuilding and tradi
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• Naha
  ...in what was then Kohagura village, Mawashi ''[[magiri]]''; [[sugar]] cane, rice, wheat, [[indigo]], palm trees, [[turmeric]], and other crops were grown th
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• Wako
  ...an]] of Tsushima, granting the Sô an annual stipend of 200 ''[[koku]]'' of rice, official permission to send fifty trading ships to Korea each year, and pe
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• Korean embassies to Edo
  ...either through tribute or the associated trade, or other gifts, including rice, textiles, ceramics, mother-of-pearl inlays, books, documents such as Buddh
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• Chinese investiture envoys
  ...hickens, and ducks; a ''kyôôsho'' (供応所) who oversaw the provision of food, rice, [[sake|saké]], etc.; a ''rienshi'' (理宴司) who oversaw the royal banq
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• Qing Dynasty
  ...skins, ox horns, gold, silver, tea, paper, various types of textiles, and rice, along with goods obtained from Southeast Asia or elsewhere, such as sappan
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• Japanese Swords
  ...a and thru this peninsula the most important innovations arrived in Japan. Rice cultivation and iron tools and related technology were introduced at the en
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