E [XVII]. The annual figures (from Aichi) for the
years 1894 to 1915 (page 384) show the cost of producing a _tan_ of
rice, that is the summer crop. The amounts per _tan_ are calculated on
the basis of the expenses of a tenant who is cropping 8 _tan_. The
totals for the winter crop are also given. The figures which appear on
the opposite page were described to me by the farmer concerned as
"compiled on the basis of investigations by the chairman of the
village agricultural association and by its managers and still further
proved and quite trustworthy." It will be seen that the value of the
winter crop is low; a secondary employment is usually a better thing
for the farmer. In one or two places there is a sen or so difference
in the additions which may have been made by the transcriber from the
Japanese original. The difference in amounts of rent is due to
difference in fields rented and also to reduction allowed owing to bad
crops. The difference in the income from crops is usually due to
destruction by hail or wind.

COST AND PRICE OF RICE (see page 383)

|Year
| |Yield in
| |_koku_
| | |Reserved for Rent
| | |and Seeds (_koku_)
| | | |Market Price per
| | | |_koku_ (yen)
| | | | |Gross Income including
| | | | |Straw and Chaff,
| | | | |not usually sold (yen)
| | | | | |Manures (yen)
| | | | | | |Taxes and Amortisation
| | | | | | |of Implements (sen)
| | | | | | | |Total Outlay (yen)
| | | | | | | | |Net Income from Summer
| | | | | | | | |Crop of Rice (yen)
| | | | | | | | | |Days of Labour on
| | | | | | | | | |Summer Crop of Rice
| | | | | | | | | | |Net Income from
| | | | | | | | | | |Winter Crop (?Barley)
| | | | | | | | | | | |Total Net
| | | | | | | | | | | |Income from
| | | | | | | | | | | |both Crops.
|------|------|------|-------