tsukasa

Updated: July 18, 2026

Lands cultivated for purposes of State revenue were called miyake. In ancient Japan, officials and their offices were often designated alike. Thus, miyake signified a public estate or the store for keeping the produce, just as tsukasa was applied alike to an overseer and to his place of transacting business.

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