kurairechi

Japanese society

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In Japan: The Hideyoshi regime
For example, the kurairechi (lands under its direct control), which were the immediate financial base of the regime, amounted to more than 2.2 million koku by the time of Hideyoshi’s death, nearly one-eighth of Japan’s cultivated land. But aside from those in the metropolitan and surrounding provinces, these…
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