Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Japan" (part) to "Jeveros"

part in the northern and eastern parts of the main island, at such a

distance from the Capital that the writ of the central government did not run there; and since such lands could be rented at rates considerably less than the tax levied on farms belonging to the state, the peasants by degrees abandoned the latter and settled on the former, with the result that the revenues of the T...