noun
Toyotomi Hideyoshi's nationwide land survey (1582)
Historical term referring to the cadastral survey ordered by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, which standardized land valuation and taxation across Japan.
太閤検地によって、全国の土地の生産力が石高で表されるようになった。
Through the Taikō land survey, the productivity of land across the country came to be expressed in koku.