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with responsibility for supervising cereal storehouses and accounting for rice received in payment of imposed taxes. The manner of paying taxes varied according to locality. In the ''Kantō,'' payments were generally made in rice for wet fields and in gold for uplands. In the ''
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'' and western provinces, a slightly different formula was applied; but the payments were also received in both rice and gold. In the case of rice payments, the money would have been taken to
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where it would be placed in shogunate storehouses which were under the control and supervision of the ''kura-bugyo.''Brinkley, Frank et al. (1915)
''A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era,'' p. 638.
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Bugyō was a title assigned to ''samurai'' officials in feudal Japan. ''Bugyō'' is often translated as commissioner, magistrate, or governor, and other terms would be added to the title to describe more specifically a given official's tasks or jurisdi ...


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* Brinkley, Frank. (1915)
''A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era.''
London:
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. * Hall, John Wesley. (1955)
''Tanuma Okitsugu: Forerunner of Modern Japan.''
Cambridge:
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