The nationwide land survey conducted by Taiko (the honorific title for a regent) Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI in the Azuchi-Momoyama period decided that the owner of a farmland was the farmer who cultivated the land.
安土桃山時代に豊臣秀吉が行った太閤検地によって、農地の所有者は耕作する農民とされた。