Such a taxation system greatly depended on systems which closely controlled the populace, such as the ancient systems used to maintain the koseki (household registers) and keicho (yearly tax registers), as well as the Koku-gun-ri (-go) system (an administrative system used to divide lands and regions).
こうした租税制度は、古代の戸籍制度・計帳の整備や国郡里（郷）制といった緻密な人民支配システムに大きく依存していた。