hansai

Updated: May 15, 2025

There were, however, other imposts, which, though not accurately stated, must have brought the land-tax to much more than forty per cent, of the yield. The Court nobles had their own domains, usually small. All these estates, those of the Crown, of princes, and of Court nobles, were subject to a system called hansai. That is to say, one-half of their revenues were leviable for military purposes.

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