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Horses in Early Modern Japan
Figure 2 Regions Studied
Figure 3 Kyōbuseihyō (1880a; 1880b)
General Staff Office of the Imperial Japanese Army. It contains county-
and village-specific statistics on population, produce, schools, vehicles,
and ships, and therefore provides useful information on the distribution
of cattle and horses.
Village-specific changes in population and in the number of cattle and
horses in the early modern period were determined using the NAC (figure
4). The NAC was essentially compiled each year, recording for each unit
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