Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A liquid and dry measure used in Japan.
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- noun A
unit of measure infeudal Japan , the amount ofrice needed to feed one person for a year.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"koku"; this word has never before meant the country as a whole, but only the territory of a clan.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2002) GovernmentCountry name: conventional long form: none conventional short form: Japan local long form: Nihon-koku/Nippon-koku local short form: Nihon/Nippon
Japan 2008
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Japanconventional long form: none conventional short form: Japan local long form: Nihon-koku/Nippon-koku local short form: Nihon/Nippon
Country name 2008
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The egg-yolk-heavy mayo is believed to benefit the koku, or body, and now mayo makers market it as a koku-enhancing seasoning.
Don't Hold The Mayo! 2007
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You shall have a hundred koku income, and you shall be a retainer in my service, and you shall be in my bodyguard.
Home Is the Hunter Dana Kramer-Rolls 2000
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A hundred koku stipend couldn't be spent by a dead man, and death was all that awaited him at Fushimi Castle.
Home Is the Hunter Dana Kramer-Rolls 2000
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He had made Sulu his standard bearer and cheerfully added, with gallows humor, that the post carried a one thousand koku stipend.
Home Is the Hunter Dana Kramer-Rolls 2000
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The next day, after an impromptu bath in a cold stream, Sulu was again dressed as befit the station of a hundred koku man in the service of Torii Mototada.
Home Is the Hunter Dana Kramer-Rolls 2000
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The name is said to be a corruption of the Telegu _pandi-koku_.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The great _daimyo [u] _ with incomes running into the hundreds of thousands of _koku_ were princes administering part of the public domain, with armies and an elaborate civil service to support.
The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)
hernesheir commented on the word koku
Originally, the amount of rice one person would eat during the course of a year in feudal Japan. About 150 kilograms. The amount of rice a person eats in one day was termed a masu.
February 12, 2010