Note to self

[gurdymonkey]

1 Koku = enough rice to feed a person for a year.
1 Masu = enough rice to feed a person for a day.
If 1 koku = 330.69 pounds (150 kg), 1 masu = 0.906 pound.

Hmmmm.

Comments

[aureellia.livejournal.com]

I pondered.

If raw Japanese style white rice is 105 calories per ounce uncooked, this figure supports political information from the time that is available to the average d00fus like me. That would be 14.496 or 1,522.08 calories per day just in rice. It avoids the need for substantial edible oils in the diet to round out the caloric intake of the average person. The protein wouldn't be bad either.

Was white rice available to most social classes?

[erink.livejournal.com]

I remember talking about this on SCA-JML and I was thinking that there must have been substantial foraging going on as well as some hunting and fishing. If you're a soldier "on campaign" then you're probably spending lots of time in the woods, and bringing home wild plants to eat is not unheard of even now.

[sengokudaimyo.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, but that's also .9 pounds of *raw* rice.

They generally assume you will be supplementing with pickles and other veggies. ;)