Cotton Inspection - Kiwatakemi

Japanese: 木綿検見 - きわたけみ

In the early modern period, tax amounts were determined by observing the quality of cotton harvested in fields. Cotton inspections were conducted in the same way as rice inspections for paddy fields, and if the final amount of unhulled rice produced was less than the average tax amount for several years, the ridge-drawing inspection method was used. Inspections of cotton crops in fields were stopped in 1744, and thereafter taxes were collected at the same rate as for top-grade rice. Inspections of cotton crops in fields were also stopped in 1738, and were only conducted in the Kinai and Chugoku regions. Inspections of cotton crops in fields were conducted using the unhulled inspection method, which converted the amount into unhulled rice based on the "inspection kin-tsukicho" (weighted list of rice grains) submitted by the villagers.

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Japanese:

近世，田畑の綿の作柄を見て年貢高を決定すること。木綿検見は水田の稲作検見と同様の方法で行われ，最終的に産出された有籾量が数ヵ年の平均年貢量より少なければ畝引きをする畝引検見取法によった。1744年田方綿作の検見は停止され，以後は稲の上々毛なみに徴収されるようになった。畑方検見も1738年に停止され，畿内・中国筋のみで行われるようになった。畑方木綿作の検見は村方が提出した〈内見斤付帳〉をもとに籾に換算する有毛検見取法によった。

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