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Mike Gershon
Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2001 - 02:14 pm:   

I am looking for a translation of the Japanese word Koku, as used in the Feudal Ages of Japan. I believe it was used as a measurement of rice, and would like to know what it meant.
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Posted on Saturday, March 03, 2001 - 01:20 am:   

Koku is an old unit to measure the volume of cereals or liquid. 1 koku is about 180 L and it is a merit of Toyotomi Hideyoshi to give a precise definition of this unit. An adult consumes about 1 koku of rice in a year. The rice being the principal food of Japanese, this unit was especially used to quantify the wealth of seigniors (daimyo). For example, Tokugawa shogun owned 8 million koku corresponding to 1 quarter of Japanese rice production at the beginning of Edo period.

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