Rice Measures

2.5 D x 12.5Throughout the Edo and early Meiji periods rice was the basis of measuring wealth and status. Indeed the warrior class was paid with a rice stipend. These coopered buckets of hinoki were measures for rice and likely used into the Meiji era: 1868-1912. Each has brands burned into the wood and occasionally a still intact paper seal. 1 T.
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