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Etymology
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[edit]ryō (plural ryō)
- A gold currency unit in the shakkanhō system in pre-Meiji Japan.
- 2001, Monumenta Nipponica, volume 56, Sophia University, page 35:
- He pulled three gold ryō out of his pocket, made a hole in one of them with a short sword, and gave it to the child to play with.
- 2011 [1962], A[rthur] L[indsay] Sadler, The Japanese Tea Ceremony: Cha-No-Yu, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN:
- When he started off to go anywhere, which he frequently did quite casually, he always had two ryō in his pocket, which he explained, was for burial fee.
- 2014, Cecilia Segawa Seigle, Linda H. Chance, Ōoku: The Secret World of the Shogun’s Women, Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, →ISBN:
- In the early seventeenth century, an ordinary town maid’s wage was 1.5 ryō a year; in the 1740s, it was 2 ryō a year. By the second decade of the nineteenth century, a maid generally received two to three ryō or, at most, three and a half ryō per year.
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