 | Lancelot Lawton - East Asia - 1912 - 794 pages
...peasantry throughout the empire were content, for the taxes had been lightened. Formerly the farmer had to give up seven-tenths of the annual produce...provincial ; the Hojo reduced the rate to one-half. But the situation of the governing military class was not settled as was that of the governed mass... | |
 | Lancelot Lawton - East Asia - 1912 - 766 pages
...peasantry throughout the empire were content, for the taxes had been lightened. Formerly the farmer had to give up seven-tenths of the annual produce...in payment of taxes, Imperial and provincial ; the H5J6 reduced the rate to one-half. But the situation of the governing military class was not settled... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - History - 1923 - 960 pages
...code, which adopted the main results of the Hojo regime. This in time was developed in later ionturies by various enactments into a body of law greatly exceeding...farmer under the theocratic period had to give up -even-tenths of the annual produce of his land in payment of taxes, Imperial and provincial, the Hojo... | |
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Shogun, the society of the new military capital of Kamakura was in a state of not very stable equilibrium. No doubt the peasantry throughout the empire were content, for the taxes had been lightened. Formerly the farmer had to give up seven-tenths of... 