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‖ ryo|rjoː|
Also 9 rio, riyo.
[Jap.]
A former Japanese monetary unit (see quots.).
1871A. B. Mitford Tales of Old Japan I. 70 A Japanese noble will sometimes be found girding on a sword, the blade of which unmounted is worth from six hundred to a thousand riyos, say from {pstlg}200 to {pstlg}300. 1876W. E. Griffis Mikado's Empire (1877) II. 610 In popular language, the terms hiyaku (hundred), fun, mommé, and even riō (4 mommé, 5 fun), do not represent any coin, but are used to denote values. They are expressions belonging to the period when money was computed by weight only. 1899L. Hearn In Ghostly Japan vi. 103 The sum of a hundred ryō in gold. 1915F. Brinkley Hist. Jap. People xxxi. 438 The gold ryō represented 2 koku, or 30 yen of modern currency, the silver ryō representing 3 yen. Ibid. xxxii. 444 Gold..was much more valuable in China than in Japan. Ten ryō of the yellow metal could be obtained in Japan for from twenty to thirty kwan-mon and sold in China for 130. 1938D. T. Suzuki Zen Buddhism & its Influence on Japanese Culture i. vii. 160 Two loads of gold were equivalent in the currency of the time to 12,000 ryo. 1964Japan (Unesco) (rev. ed.) i. 45/2 It is said that between 1601 and 1647 about 4,800,000 ryō (one ryō contained four me of pure gold) of gold and 750,000 kan of silver were paid to foreign countries. 1972Mainichi Daily News (Japan) 6 Nov. 7/4, I will kill anyone or accept a mission of the sword for five hundred ryo in gold. |