石こく高だか

noun

crop yield; rice yield

Historical term for the assessed rice production capacity of a domain or fief, measured in koku.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、大だい名みょうの領りょう地ちは石こく高だかで表あらわされた。

  In the Edo period, a daimyo's domain was expressed in terms of its assessed rice yield.

noun

stipend; salary

Originally based on the assessed crop yield; used for samurai stipends in the Edo period.

• 彼かれの家いえは三さん百びゃく石こくの石こく高だかをもらっていた。

  His family received a stipend of 300 koku.