俸ほう禄ろく米まい

noun

rice stipend; salary paid in rice

Historical term referring to the practice in pre-modern Japan of paying samurai and officials with rice instead of money.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、武ぶ士しの給きゅう料りょうは俸ほう禄ろく米まいとして支し給きゅうされた。

  In the Edo period, samurai salaries were paid as rice stipends.