A box of 1000 ryo coins

Japanese: 千両箱 - せんりょうばこ

〘Noun〙① A container used to store gold coins during the Edo period. The name comes from the fact that it originally contained 1,000 ryo of gold. Later, it came to refer to small ones that could only hold 500 ryo, or large ones that could hold as much as 10,000 ryo. The size of the box also varies depending on the capacity, with 1,000 ryo of oban (100 oban coins), 1,000 ryo of koban (1,000 koban coins), and 1,000 ryo of ichibu gold coins (4,000 ichibu gold coins), so the size of the box is not necessarily the same. There is also a wide variety of styles, and they are usually made of wood such as pine, cypress, or zelkova, but there are also rare bronze ones, which are thought to have been stored in stone storehouses. *Haiku poem Taketamakawa (1750-76) 4 ``No response from the 1,000 ryo box''② ① Something very valuable that can produce ①. It also refers to a capable person. ※Sakehon Tsugen Sori (1787) 2 “For the two of you, this is a box of 1,000 ryo from Takeya.”

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Japanese:

〘名〙① 江戸時代に、金貨幣を保管するのに用いた容器。当初、金千両を収納したところからの名称。後には五百両しか収納できない小型のもの、あるいは一万両も入れられる大型のものも称した。大きさも大判の千両（大判一〇〇枚）、小判の千両（小判一〇〇〇枚）、一分金の千両（一分金四〇〇〇枚）では容積が異なるので、箱の大きさは必ずしも一定したものではない。また、様式の上からも種々雑多であり、普通は松・檜・欅など木製のものであるが、まれに青銅製のものもあり、これは石蔵などに保蔵されたものとみられる。※俳諧・武玉川（1750‐76）四「千両箱に手ごたへはなし」② ①を生みだすことができる非常に価値あるもの。また、有能な人をいう。※洒落本・通言総籬（1787）二「お二人ながら、竹屋の千両箱でござります」

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