uchi-tsurmiyake

Updated: July 29, 2026

But in one respect the superiority was largely on her side; namely, in the quality of her soldiers. Therefore, she utilized her military strength for campaigns which cost comparatively little and produced much. The peninsula, at that time, verified the term commonly applied to it, Uchi-tsurmiyake, or the "Granary of the Home-land."

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