Cut rice - Kirimai

Japanese: 切米 - きりまい

〘 noun 〙① In the Middle Ages, the contract to pay a fixed amount of annual tax. Also, the annual tax. ※Kuchiki documents - April 22, 1477 (9th year of Bunmei) - Tomikura Fujihisa's appointment letter to the position of magistrate, "Contract cut rice from Kanawa-in's share of the annual tax." ② In the Edo period, the rice allowance or equivalent amount of money was paid to vassals of the shogunate or daimyo who did not have a fief in three installments: spring (February, one-fourth of the annual salary), summer (May, one-fourth of the same), and winter (October, one-half of the same). Also, the act of paying it. The winter rice is called "cut rice," and the other months are sometimes called "borrowed rice." ※Tenrihon Kyogen - Prince's Tegai (late Muromachi period - early modern period) "Since you haven't even left over last year's cut rice, I have no power to turn the board over." ③ (derived from ②) The salary of ordinary employees, etc. Salary. ※Ukiyo-zoshi, Man no Buntan (1696) 1 "I receive 240 ryo as annual service money, two concubines from Kyoto each earning 100 ryo, and three women who wear these large sleeves."

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Japanese:

〘名〙① 中世、年貢を一定額で請け負うこと。また、その年貢。※朽木文書‐文明九年（1477）四月二二日・富倉藤久代官職補任状「金輪院知行分年貢之内、契約切米」② 江戸時代、幕府あるいは大名の家臣のうち、知行所を与えられていない者に対して、春（二月、年給額の四分の一）、夏（五月、同四分の一）、冬（一〇月、同二分の一）の三季に分割して支給される扶持米、あるいはそれ相当の金銭。また、それを支給すること。特に冬季のものを「切米」といい、その他を「御借米」という場合がある。※天理本狂言・太子の手鉾（室町末‐近世初）「去年の御切米の残をさへくだされませぬによって、板かへし仕るちからが御ざらぬ」③ (②から転じて) 一般雇人などの給料。給金。※浮世草子・万の文反古（1696）一「年中の御つかひ金として弐百四十両相わたし、京より百両きりまいの御妾女弐人かかへ、此大ぶり袖の腰もとづかひ三人」

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