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data-interaction-id=\"5c786177\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"5c786177\">CREATOR<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"e-228dd387-1bc5860 e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"228dd387\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"228dd387\">Iwamoto Keiko<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<hr class=\"e-5b2b2b7c-79e335c e-divider-base\" data-interaction-id=\"5b2b2b7c\"  data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"5b2b2b7c\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c9986d8 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7c9986d8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"e-402b1411-020982d e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"402b1411\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"402b1411\">DATE<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"e-2b087480-0e1f28f e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"2b087480\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"2b087480\">Meiji 10 (1877)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<hr class=\"e-73820106-67db5f5 e-divider-base\" data-interaction-id=\"73820106\"  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It is not an argument against the reform. It is an account of its effects.<\/p><p data-start=\"206\" data-end=\"304\">The Land Tax Reform did not weaken the <em data-start=\"245\" data-end=\"249\">ie<\/em>. It removed the conditions under which it could exist.<\/p><p data-start=\"306\" data-end=\"517\">The <em data-start=\"310\" data-end=\"314\">ie<\/em> had been sustained by three pillars: land held by right, obligation enforced through custom and hierarchy, and authority recognised through lineage rather than record. None of these survived the reform.<\/p><p data-start=\"519\" data-end=\"816\">Land was no longer understood through yield, memory or reputation. It was measured, valued and fixed in money. Ownership was recorded by name and location. Tax was assessed by statute and collected without reference to circumstance. Obligation to the House was replaced by obligation to the State.<\/p><p data-start=\"818\" data-end=\"911\">Rice ceased to matter. Service ceased to matter. What could not be written no longer existed.<\/p><p data-start=\"913\" data-end=\"1045\">This change was absolute. It admitted no local exception and no transitional discretion. Custom was not adapted. It was disregarded.<\/p><p data-start=\"1047\" data-end=\"1138\">The reform did not judge the <em data-start=\"1076\" data-end=\"1080\">ie<\/em>. It did not oppose it. It simply no longer recognised it.<\/p><p data-start=\"1140\" data-end=\"1372\">Many Houses mistook delay for reprieve. The machinery of enforcement was slow and its effects uneven. This gave the appearance of survival. In truth, the structure had already been dissolved. What remained was form without function.<\/p><p data-start=\"1374\" data-end=\"1556\">For Houses of scale, the danger lay not in confiscation or disgrace, but in visibility. 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