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1. Rice In Feudal Japan

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   The Decline of the System
   By the late Edo period, the rigidity of the koku system proved increasingly unsuited to a developing cash economy. Samurai, paid in fixed quantities of grain whose market value fluctuated wildly, often fell into debt to urban moneylenders who traded in actual silver and copper coins. This disparity led to the creation of the "Rice-Debt Proxy," where samurai sold the future yield …