五公五民

ごこうごみん

Meanings

1. Noun land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half

Kanji

• 五 five. Read as ゴ.
• 公 public. Read as コウ.
• 民 people. Read as ミン.

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