供きょう米まい

noun

rice delivered to the government; tribute rice

Historical term referring to rice paid as tax or tribute to the government, especially in pre-modern Japan.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、農のう民みんは年ねん貢ぐとして供きょう米まいを納おさめた。

  In the Edo period, farmers delivered tribute rice as land tax.