Payment of rice - Haraimai

Japanese: 払米 - はらいまい

In the Edo period, this referred to the practice of feudal lords selling (sale-rice) that they had collected as tax and converting it into cash. The rice that was sold was also called "sale-rice." Most of the tax rice was sold to influential merchants called kuramoto, kakeya, and fudasashi in large cities in territories directly controlled by the shogunate, such as Edo and Osaka, and converted into cash. In Osaka, rice from the western and northern regions was mainly sold, and the majority of this was domain rice produced by the storehouses of each domain, which was paid for through a bid by rice brokers in Dojima. In Edo, domain rice from the Kanto, Tohoku, and Chubu regions and shogunate rice were sold. A significant portion of this rice was shogunate rice used to pay the salaries of the shogunate's vassals who collected the rice from the storehouses, and was converted into cash by fudasashi. In addition, rice was sometimes paid by local rice wholesalers or local merchants in each daimyo's home province or village, and this was called jibarai (local payment), zaibarai (resident payment), gobarai (village payment), or murabarai (village payment).
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Japanese:

江戸時代，領主層が収納した年貢米（蔵米）を売却（売払い）して換金することをいう。また売り払う米をも払米と称した。年貢米の大部分は江戸および大坂など幕府直轄領の大都市で，蔵元・掛屋(かけや)・札差(ふださし)などと呼ばれる有力商人に売却され，換金された。大坂では主に西国米・北国米が売られ，その主体は各藩の蔵屋敷から出される藩米で，堂島(どうじま)の米仲買の入札により払米された。江戸では関東・東北・中部地方の藩米と幕府米が売却された。うち蔵米取りの幕府家臣団の俸禄に充てられる幕府米がかなりの部分を占め，札差によって換金された。このほか各大名の国元や各村で地方の米問屋や在郷商人により払米されることもあり，これは地払(じばらい)・在払(ざいばらい)・郷払(ごうばらい)・村払(むらばらい)などと称された。
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