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That little cup you get with a rice cooker is 180ml, 3/4 of a cup, a unit called a Go.
One go is 1/1000th of a koku, the amount of rice needed to feed one person for one year.
One koku is 180.4 liters, or about 40 gallons.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koku
One go is 1/1000th of a koku, the amount of rice needed to feed one person for one year.
One koku is 180.4 liters, or about 40 gallons.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koku
One liter of dry white long-grained rice has 2,853 calories.
Thus one koku is 513,540 calories per year.
1,406 per day
Thus one koku is 513,540 calories per year.
1,406 per day
1 koku of white rice weighs about 150kg, or 330lbs.
Feudal estates were measured in koku, it was a basic economic unit.
The economy was measured in, literally, how many people it could keep alive.
The economy was measured in, literally, how many people it could keep alive.
This is interesting.
Right now, how many koku do you have?
Right now, how many koku do you have?
