bow-notches

Updated: July 22, 2026

*Hence the term "Aizu," form, signifies "to meet." The digging of reservoirs and tunnels for irrigating rice-fields received unprecedented attention in the reign of this Emperor, and mention is for the first time made of taxes tributes of "bow-notches and of finger-tips," in other words, the produce of the chase and the products of the loom.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era