Table 1 The change of kokudaka in Tokugawa Japan.

From: Weak central government, strong legal rights: the origins of divergent legal institutions in 18th-century Chinese and Japanese rice markets

Japan Combined

Edo Shogunate Region

Year

Koku

Year

Koku

1644-1651

23,617,595

1702

4,005,623

1697-1720

25,910,642

1730

4,481,056

1716-1736

26,432,946

1757

4,482,900

1831-1834

30,558,918

1838

4,192,042

  

1863

4,075,743

  1. Source: Kikuchi (1986), Murakami (1973) and (1982).
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