When the price of rice was sluggish by deflation due to the Financial Policy by Masayoshi Matsukata, the land-tax of fixed amount payment became a heavy burden on farmers, and many of them suffered from poverty.
松方財政によるデフレーションで米価が低迷すると、定額金納の地租が農家に大きな負担となり、多くの農家が窮乏化した。