hiki

1. historicalA copper coin used in Japan in the Sengoku period, equal to 10 mon.

   Five hundred hiki (the cost of five kegs of sake), six loads of charcoal, two baskets of oranges, and various dried foods.

   2002, Sōchō, translated by H. Mack Horton, The Journal of Sōchō, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 130

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   After enough money was at last found, the imperial family was so happy that in appreciation the shogunal official responsible for the release of the burial money—one thousand hiki (about $5,000)—was granted the coveted right to personally display the imperial crest of chrysanthemum and paulownia.

   1987, Jerrold M. Packard, Sons of Heaven: A Portrait of the Japanese Monarchy, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 143

   Sogi once donated one thousand hiki in cash (based on rice prices in 1984, some five thousand dollars) to the court for repairs to the Library of Official Documents (Kammu Bunko).

   1991, Jin’ichi Konishi, translated by Aileen Gatten and Mark Harbison, edited by Earl Miner, A History of Japanese Literature, volume 3 (The High Middle Ages), Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 453

   Nakamura was hired that day for the large sum of one thousand hiki.⁷⁹ […] 79. Traditionally, the price of one koku of rice was equivalent to one hiki of silk. In the Edo period one hiki remained more or less the equivalent of ten mon.

   2016, William J. Farge, A Christian Samurai: The Trials of Baba Bunkō, Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN, page 263

plural hikis

1. abbreviationclippinginformalClipping of hikikomori (“reclusive person”)