oban

Asahina Saburô Yoshihide wrestles with two crocodiles at Kotsubo Beach, Kamakura, 1849 Colour woodblock, oban triptych (left sheet) 35.7 x 25.2 cm

Utagawa Kuniyoshi The Nag 2009

Throughout his life he devoted much attention to amassing a reserve fund, and it is said that when he resigned the shogunate to his son, he left 150,000 gold oban (one and a half million ryo), and nearly two million ounces (troy) of silver in the treasury.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Tensho oban, * and the latter as the silver bu (ichibu-giri) and the silver half-bu (nishu-gin.) * The oban was an oval plate measuring 7 inches by 4, and weighing 53 ounces.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

The limits within which the intrinsic value of gold coins varied will be understood when we say that whereas the gold oban of the Keicho era

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

I noted, for example: gingko No ginkgo noh jiujitsu oban jujitsu obang jinricksha samisen jinrikshaw samsien jinriksha Shin ricksha Shin-shu rickshaw shoyu rikisha soy keyaki kiaki I must also question whether all the words listed by Cannon are really Japanese loanwords.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983

Amidism (et al.) samisen ansu sen chanoyu seppuku gingko soya (et al.) jujitsu Tendai oban tycoon judo yen ri Zen Robert Devereux Falls Church, Virginia

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983

Nippostrongylus kendo kyu nisei kesa-gatame kyudo No keyaki linked verse nogaku kiaki mai noh kibei maiko nori kiku makimono norimon Kikuchi mama-san norito kikumon mamushi noshi kikyo mana notan ki-mon matsu nunchakus kimono matsuri oban kimono sleeve matsuyama, adj. obang kin mebos obe kiri medaka obi kirigami Meiji odori kirimon menuki ofuro kirin metake o-goshi koan miai oiran mikado ojime sub mikan Okayama, adj. kobang Mikimoto Okazaki kobe, adj.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1 1982

When the old man got home, he opened the trunk and found to his and the old woman’s joy that it was full of oban and koban coins.

Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends Jeannette L. Faurot 1995