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Subject:Re: text on japanese print
Posted By: I.Nagy Sat, Jun 20, 2026
On the one hand, this print provides valuable insight into the economic aspects of rice consumption—which sustained people’s daily lives—at the end of the Edo period; on the other hand, it reveals the extent to which people were fascinated by large numbers.
The text on the right, citing the tax guidelines in effect at the time, states that as a general rule each person's daily ration is set at 2 go rice, cooked in the morning and evening....
In the center, the annual rice requirements are calculated on a progressive scale per population ranging from one person to 100 million. ( Note, that time Japan's population was about 30 million)
1 person 1 day morning and evening
1 month 1 sho 5 go
1 year 1 to 8 sho
10 person / year 1 koku 8 to
100 " 18 koku
1000 " 180 koku
10000 " 1800 koku
100000 " 18,000 koku
1 million " 180,000 koku
10 million " 1,800,000 koku
100 million " 18 million koku
The text on the left side is a logical explanation of "One grain ten thousandfold"... the idea that even a single grain of rice if harvested and then sown in its entity the following year, and this process repeated -will multiply into an explosive quantity.
(1 koku = 10 to = 100 sho = 10,000 go
1 Koku = 150 kg, 1 to = 15 kg, 1 sho = 1,5 kg
1 go = 150ｇ)
Reards,
I.Nagy
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text on japanese print 
( China & Japan ) - francis minvielle - Jun 17, 2026 (07:23 AM) 
