Bunmai - Bunmai

Japanese: 分米 - ぶんまい

In the Middle Ages, this referred to rice paid as annual tax in manors and kokuga territories. It was calculated by multiplying the todai (annual tax collection rate) per tan by the area, but was called bunhu (rice paddy), bunsen (sen), bunken (silk), buniroku (iron), etc., depending on what was paid. In the Edo period, it referred to the kokudaka (rice yield) of cultivated land determined by land surveys, and was also calculated by multiplying the kokumori (stone mound) by the number of tan, but was often used when fields, farmland, and houses were classified into upper, middle, and lower grades and tallied (in land survey books).

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Japanese:

中世，荘園・国衙(こくが)領で年貢(ねんぐ)として納めた米をいう。１反当たりの斗代(とだい)（年貢徴収率）に面積を掛けて算出するが，納めるものにより分籾(もみ)・分銭・分絹(けん)・分鉄などとされた。江戸時代には検地で定められた耕地の石高(こくだか)をいい，やはり石盛(こくもり)に反数を掛けて算出するが，多くは田畑屋敷を上・中・下などの等級に分けて集計した場合（検地帳）などに用いられた。

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