Odaiba - Odaiba

Japanese: 御台場 - おだいば
Odaiba - Odaiba
〘 noun 〙 ("o" is a prefix) 1. (honorific title for "daiba (battery)") In the Edo period, this referred to a battery. At the end of the Edo period, they were set up on various coasts in preparation for foreign ships, but it usually refers to the one built off the coast of Shinagawa in Edo. *Financial and economic materials - 1. Finance, miscellaneous expenses, civil and military expenses, August 20, 1853 (Kaei 6), " Order to erect a strict battery in the inland sea" 2. Another name for the Kaei one shu silver coin (equivalent to one-sixteenth of one ryo) issued from 1854 ( Kaei 7 ). It was so named because it was widely used as wages for laborers (250 mon) at the Shinagawa battery, which was under construction at the time. *Kabuki Kaidan Tsuki Kasamori (Kasamori Osen) (1865) Prologue "I thought I'd get one of the odaiba to buy a topknot string."

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Japanese:
〘名〙 (「お」は接頭語)① (「だいば(台場)」の敬称) 江戸時代、砲台のこと。幕末異国船に備え各所の海岸に設けられたが、普通には江戸品川沖に築かれたものをさす。※財政経済史料‐一・財政・諸費・文武費・嘉永六年(1853)八月二〇日「内海へ厳重の御台場御取立被仰出」② 嘉永七年(一八五四)から発行された嘉永一朱銀(一両の十六分の一に当たる)の異称。当時築造中の品川台場の人足賃(銭二百五十文)として盛んに使われたところからいう。※歌舞伎・怪談月笠森(笠森お仙)(1865)序幕「お台場の一つも貰って髷紐(まげひも)でも買はうと思って」

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