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Campaign resources: Income by province

Here’s a list of incomes in koku per province in Japan in 1598. Bear in mind that the land surveys necessary for the assessment were completed after 8 years of peace and after Hideyoshi’s social reorganisation, so the situation during the actual Sengoku Jidai would have been different. However, the list serves as perhaps an optimum yield for each province, assuming full daimyō control over their vassals, land surveys and some improvement of infratstructure. In earlier times, some percentage of these totals could be used, and during a campaign, that percentage could rise depending on the province’s ruler increasing their control and providing infrastructural impprovements. Alternatively/additionally, the totals can be used as a way of providing a comparison between the relative wealth of provinces, all thing being equal.

Tōhoku:

Mutsu                   1,672,358

Dewa                      318,095

North Kantō:

Kōzuke                   496,377

Shimotsuke            374,083

Hitachi                  530,008

South Kantō:

Kazusa                   378,892

Shimōsa                393,255

Awa                       45,045

Musashi                667,126

Sagami                 194,204

Kōshin’etsu:

Kai                       227,616

Shinano               408,358

Echigo                 390,770

Sado                     17,030

Hokuriku

Etchū                 380,298

Kaga                  355,570

Noto                  210,000

Echizen             499,411

Wakasa              85,000

Tōkai:

Izu                       69,832

Suruga                150,000

Tōtōmi               255,160

Mikawa              290,750

Owari                 571,737

Mino                 540,000

Hida                    38,000

Ise                     567,105

Shima                 17,854

Iga                    100,000

Kinki:

Ōmi                     775,379

Yamashiro           225,262

Tango                 110,784

Yamato              448,946

Settsu                356,066

Kawachi             242,106

Izumi                 141,513

Kii                      243,550

Awaji                   62,104

Harima              358,534

Tanba                263,887

Tajima               114,235

Chūgoku:

Inaba                  88,500

Hōki                 100,947

Izumo               186,650

Iwami                111,770

Oki                       4,980

Bizen                223,762

Bitchū              176,929

Mimasaka        186,018

Bingo              186,100

Aki                  194,150

Suō                 167,820

Nagato            130,660

Shikoku:

Awa                 183,500

Sanuki              126,200

Iyo                   336,200

Tosa                   98,200

Kyūshū:

Chikuzen             335,690

Chikugo              265,998

Buzen                  140,000

Bungo                 418,313

Hizen                  309,935

Higo                   341,220

2 thoughts on “Campaign resources: Income by province”

  1. Some figures to consider:

    I’m wondering if this also provides a rough population estimate for each province. Since one koku supports one human for one year and the totals for this list= (+/-)18 million koku and with population estimates for 1600 ranging from 22m( McEvedy & Jones) to only 12m(Biraben), the figures would seem to fit. This would also correspond to around 4.5 million acres under cultivation which also supports the estimate that only 50% of arable land was given to rice cultivation and of a total estimate of 9.28 mill acres in all of Japan in the 16thC, once again the figures roughly fit.

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