掛かけ米まい

noun

rice traded on a rice exchange

Historical term for rice bought and sold through a rice exchange, especially in the Edo period.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、掛かけ米まいは堂どう島じま米こめ市いち場ばで活かっ発ぱつに取とり引ひきされた。

  In the Edo period, kake-mai was actively traded at the Dōjima rice market.

noun

rice for unrefined sake production

Rice used as an ingredient in making unrefined sake (doburoku or nigorizake).

• この地ち域いきでは、掛かけ米まいを使つかってどぶろくを造つくる習しゅう慣かんがある。

  In this region, there is a custom of making unrefined sake using kake-mai.

noun

rice paid as rent

Rice given as payment for land rent, common in pre-modern agricultural systems.

• 農のう民みんは年ねん貢ぐとして掛かけ米まいを納おさめていた。

  Farmers paid kake-mai as their annual tribute.