HIST 87 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Incentive, Genshin, Fujiwara Clan
Document Summary
General sense of unease starting to seep into everyone near the end of the heian. A fujiwara family member begins to criticize michinaga"s branch about having too much power. All the fujiwaras end up owning the land, which contradicts the taika reforms. The imperial government officially owns no more than 50% of japan"s land. No mention of money and income in the pillow book. Money received by stipend from government and family hierarchy. For the system to work, two things need to be enforced: All land is owned by the government. Land is divided among people and the people pay the government taxes based on how much land they are settling on. Ranks 1-3 overlooked the land, but the land was tax exempt; this meant they could do whatever they wanted with the money. Ranks 1-5 had sustenance housing; huge families. We see that most of the income comes from goods and services, not so much money (exchange system)
