The Edo-Bakufu took measures on assessment and collection of Nengu on the principle of "without a surplus and without want of necessaries for peasant's Life". Measuring of the area and investigation of the productivity of peasants' lands by Kenchi and the inspection of harvest by Kemi were reallly availed for such assessment.
But, in so far as such an intention was implied in Kenchi and Kemi, peasants must have necessarily resisted them. Disturbed by this resistance and some other obstacles inevitably accompanied by the execution of them, it seems that both Kenchi and Kemi were not performed so successfully as they had been expected at the beginning. Consequently, the adequate assessment "without a surplus and without want" seems also to have been not so easily realized.
This treatise intends to explain these circumstances in detail, and to inquire into the doctrine of the assessment of "without a surplus and without want" in its actual process of realization.
1) The Shogunate, the supreme feudal government, of the Edo age.
2) A staple rent in material form levied by feudal lords on peasant's lands at that time.
3) A famous doctrine stated by Masanobu Honda, one of the chief ministers of the Edo-Bakufu.
4) A kind of land survey enforced by feudal lords of the early Edo age and their predecessors.
5) An annual tour by lord's officer "Daikan", a chief bailiff, to examine the year's harvest.
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