roku-min

Updated: January 13, 2026

From various documents it appears that the three grades of land best, medium, and inferior were taxed at the rate of sixty, forty, and thirty per cent., respectively, of the yield. In other words, the average land-tax was forty per cent, of the yield called shi-ko roku-min or four parts to the Government and six to the farmer.

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