kuramai

rice stipend

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bakuhan system

  • Japan
    In Japan: The establishment of the system

    …instead with rice stipends (kuramai), thus increasing their dependence on the daimyo. At the same time, this policy increased the lands under the direct control of the daimyo, strengthening the economic base of the domain. Thus, the daimyo employed the same methods toward their own vassals as the bakufu

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