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

[takadai-no-tora.livejournal.com]

White vs. brown rice would depend on time and place. White rice keeps longer because it doesn't have the bran and some of the oils in it, OTOH, you add expense and lose some nutrition in the processing. Poorer people also ate a lot of millet; I'd guess that everyone did if the rice crop wasn't good. Overall, nine-tenths of a pound of rice with some added daikon for calcium and vitamin C and some tofu or other soy products to give complete protein would be a fairly adequate basic diet.