by the way

Rapeseed.
Kinjiro got it from acquaintance of village.

Rapeseed 1,8 liter to Oil 0，36 liter.(5:1)
He seems to had been such a contract with merchant.

And he picked up a seed of rice that has fallen.
At that time，There was a place where the flow of the canal in the village has changed by the flood.
Land that is no longer needed has occurred by it.
Kinjiro planted the seedlings of rice there on holidays.
(according to Hōtoku-ki)

Land like this seems to have been tax-exempt land.
As result,He harvest of rice about 1 pyō.

1 pyō(俵) is 1 bale.

1 pyō’s volume was not constant at that time.
Harvest of Kinjiro would be about 70 kg probably.
And maybe,He sold it to the rice merchant.
(About ten years later，Kinjiro became negotiating person with the rice merchant as a representative of his village.)　

Although would had a limit to his farming,He increased the harvest little by little.
At the same time，He had worked in the river works of Odawara clan.

Although time is almost overlap.
He is at the age of 18,He left the home of relatives.
And He began working at the village head home.

Around this time,His grandfather died in the home of his mother.
Mother’s family life seems to had became poverty by it.
(Also his young brothers)


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By the way，Paddy they sold. (It seems pawn.)
Sure enough，It may wasteland.
Three years later，He returned to his home.（1806)
He regained their paddy field at that time.

Evaluation of their paddy fields at that time.
It was "the lowest".　（called Gegeden・下下田)

About 9 ares.(900 m2)
He regained it in 3 ryō.

I do not know the price of 1 ryō at that time.
About ￥150,000 roughly?

Anyway money economy was also very important in rural areas already.
This would be true.