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Miyuki Takahashi

Average number of horses/household and household landholdings in Shimomoriya

3.5
3.0
y = 0.0375x + 0.4065
2.5 R² = 0.2883
2.0
1.5
1.0

0.5
0.0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
landholding in koku(ੴ)

Figure 12 Household Kokudaka Landholdings and Number of Horses
(Shimomoriya)

Province (age 39-40). Their mochidaka was unchanged at 7.171 koku, mean-
ing that they were not wealthy farmers. The households in the village
owned a total of 62 horses in 1819 and 59 horses in 1820.
In the case of Hidenoyama, the number of households and the number
of horses seem to follow a similar trend, but the number of horses owned
per household increased in the second half of the early modern period
(figure 11).
Were households that owned horses wealthy? The author will use land
ownership represented by mochidaka as an economic indicator for house-
holds and observe the relationship between mochidaka and the number
of horses owned (figure 12). The data record household mochidaka and the
number of horses owned by each household, and divide the total number
of horses owned by households with a given mochidaka by the total num-
ber of households. If a household is documented with the same mochidaka
for multiple years, it is counted multiple times.
The figure shows a weak positive correlation, or seems to indicate that
the richer the household was, the more horses it owned. However, the co-
efficient of determination is only 0.2883, so such a relationship cannot be
established with certainty. It appears that households with less than 10
koku owned less than one horse on average, while households with more
land ownership owned less than two horses.

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