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Tosa leaders calculated the domain's ''[[kokudaka]]'' based on Chôsokabe cadastral surveys, reporting a figure just above 200,000 ''[[koku]]'' to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] in [[1604]]; this figure would become the domain's official ''kokudaka'' for the remainder of the period. Kazutoyo dispersed lands to his retainers, retaining roughly 45,000 ''koku'' worth of land for himself, and granting the castle of Nakamura and land worth 20,000 ''koku'' to his brother [[Yamauchi Yasutoyo]], while another set of lands, ranging in value from 1100 to 10,000 ''koku'' and each centered at a castle, were granted to five of his most senior retainers. Roughly one hundred lower-ranking samurai each got fiefs ranging from 20 ''koku'' to 7,000 in value, along with residences in Kôchi, while the remaining lower-ranking retainers received stipends but no land in fief. As most of Kazutoyo's retainers were not originally from Tosa, but had come with him from Honshû, they had no fiefs to be removed from, and so most were able to be easily concentrated in the new castle town of Kôchi, where they were provided with residences. Even those who were granted fiefs elsewhere in the domain were, in most cases, given collections of spots of land scattered across a number of villages; these could serve to provide the retainer with tax income, but were intentionally not well-suited to become powerful local bases of power.

Tosa leaders calculated the domain's ''[[kokudaka]]'' based on Chôsokabe cadastral surveys, reporting a figure just above 200,000 ''[[koku]]'' to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] in [[1604]]; this figure would become the domain's official ''kokudaka'' for the remainder of the period. Kazutoyo dispersed lands to his retainers, retaining roughly 45,000 ''koku'' worth of land for himself, and granting the castle of Nakamura and land worth 20,000 ''koku'' to his brother [[Yamauchi Yasutoyo]], while another set of lands, ranging in value from 1100 to 10,000 ''koku'' and each centered at a castle, were granted to five of his most senior retainers. Roughly one hundred lower-ranking samurai each got fiefs ranging from 20 ''koku'' to 7,000 in value, along with residences in Kôchi, while the remaining lower-ranking retainers received stipends but no land in fief. As most of Kazutoyo's retainers were not originally from Tosa, but had come with him from Honshû, they had no fiefs to be removed from, and so most were able to be easily concentrated in the new castle town of Kôchi, where they were provided with residences. Even those who were granted fiefs elsewhere in the domain were, in most cases, given collections of spots of land scattered across a number of villages; these could serve to provide the retainer with tax income, but were intentionally not well-suited to become powerful local bases of power.

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