白しろ田た売ばい買ばい

noun

speculative rice trading before harvest

Historical term for a practice in the Edo period: dealing in rice futures while the paddies were still snow-covered, speculating on the year's harvest. Not used in modern Japanese.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには白しろ田た売ばい買ばいという投とう機き的てきな米こめ取とり引ひきが行おこなわれていた。

  In the Edo period, speculative rice trading called 白田売買 was practiced.