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Pl. ri.
[Jap.]
1. A traditional Japanese unit of length equal to 36 cho; in modern use equivalent to approximately 2·44 miles (3·93 kilometres).
1845Encycl. Metrop. XX. 486/2, 1 long ri = 3 standard miles nearly. 1 short ri = 2 ditto ditto. 1874Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan 1873–4 33 After a somewhat disagreeable walk of 3 ri Kusatsu is reached. 1876H. W. Bates Illustr. Trav. 248/1 The ri is little short of two and a half miles. 1890B. H. Chamberlain Things Japanese 352 Tokyo..covers an immense area, popularly estimated at four ri in every direction, in other words, a hundred square miles. 1897Japan Times 10 Apr. 3/4 How many ri of the inundated tracts of land along the rivers could possibly be polluted by the poisonous matter from the mine? 1964Japan (Unesco) (rev. ed.) 847 Ri (36 chō), 3·92727 kilometre, 2·44033 miles.
2. In Japan (in ancient times) and Korea, the smallest subdivision of rural administration.
1959R. K. Beardsley et al. Village Japan iii. 40 We have already mentioned the division of old Kibi into provinces (kuni). These were further divided into districts (kōri, later gun), and still further into villages (gō, today ‘mura’) and hamlets (ri). 1966J. W. Hall Govt. & Local Power in Japan, 500 to 1700 iii. 82 Groups of fifty or fewer ko formed the administrative village, called ri. Ibid. 83 In 715 the name ri was abandoned, and the fifty-ko units were renamed gō. These newly named administrative villages were then divided into two or three smaller units to which the term ri was applied... For some reason the ri was discontinued as a unit of official organization in 740. 1971Korean Folklore & Classics III. 7 Mr. Kwak lived in Sa Dong Ri. 1972P. M. Bartz South Korea 54/1 A myon may be divided into one or more ri... It is usually translated into English as ‘village’, but a ri does not ipso facto contain a village. It is merely the smallest area of rural subdivision. |