Makabe Incident - Makabe Incident

Japanese: 真壁騒動 - まかべそうどう

An uprising demanding a reduction in the rice price for rice grains took place in Iizuka Village, Makabe County, Ibaraki Prefecture, and 26 other villages from late November to early December 1876. Ibaraki Prefecture adopted a policy of forcing farmers to pay 60% of the rice price for the 6th year of the Meiji era by the end of the year, based on the rice price of the previous year, and settling any surplus or shortfall in February of the following year, when the next tax payment was due. However, the price of rice grains fell from 5 yen 15 sen per koku in 1875 to just under 3 yen 23 sen in 1876, so that farmers would need the entire rice harvest of 1876 to pay tribute at the rice price of 1875. Farmers in Iizuka Village and other villages often pleaded for a reduction in the rice price, but their pleas were not accepted, and they eventually rose up in revolt.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1876年11月末から12月初めにかけて茨城県真壁郡飯塚村ほか26ヵ村で起こった石代相場引下げ要求の一揆。茨城県は明治9年度貢租金納入に対し前年の米価によって年内に6割を納めさせ，次の納期の翌年2月になって過不足を精算する方針をとった。ところが1875年の石代相場1石5円15銭に対し，76年には3円23銭弱と下落し，農民は1875年の米価をもって貢納すれば76年の収穫米全部を要するほどであった。そこで飯塚村などの農民はしばしば石代相場の引下げを嘆願したが聞き入れられず，ついに蜂起した。

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