Rice bin (rice storage box) - Komebitsu

Japanese: 米びつ(米櫃) - こめびつ
Rice bin (rice storage box) - Komebitsu
A container for storing rice for eating. Wooden bins, jars, barrels, and pails are used, and there are many names for them that combine various names for food with the name of the container used. The most widely used names are those that refer to rice bins, such as ryobitsu and ryomaibitsu, and are used in the Tohoku, Chugoku, Shikoku, and Kyushu regions. Gebutsu and gebitsu in the Kinki region and keshinebitu in the Tohoku and Hokuriku regions are words derived from keshine, meaning millet, suggesting that millet was the staple food of the people in these regions.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
食用の米を入れる容器。木櫃,甕,樽,桶などの容器が使われ,食糧を意味する各種の名称と使用されている容器名との組合せによる多数の呼名がある。このうち最も広く分布している呼称はリョウビツ,リョウマイビツなど粮米櫃の系統で,東北,中国,四国,九州の各地方で使用されている。近畿地方のゲブツ,ゲビツ,東北・北陸地方のケシネビツは,雑穀を意味するケシネから出た言葉で,この地方の民衆の主食が雑穀であったことを推測させる。

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