1000 ri; (a) long distance
dialect; language of the common people; colloquial language; slang
great distance; thousands of miles; (lit.) ten thousand ri
dialect; language of the common people; colloquial language; slang
villager; village folk; countryfolk
half a ri (distance measure)
totally at a loss; lose one's bearings; in a maze; in a fog; all at sea; up in the air
large area; (lit.) four ri square (approx. 16 sq km); Edo
large area; (lit.) four ri square (approx. 16 sq km); Edo
non-legal public road (sometimes no longer physically existing)
administration of the Ryukyu Kingdom
don't count your chickens before they're hatched; there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip; (lit.) consider a journey of 100 ri to be halfway completed at 90
jōri system of land subdivision in ancient Japan
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A Tour of the Underwater World (1870 novel by Jules Verne)
province-district-neighbourhood administrative divisions (ritsuryō system)
township-neighbourhood system; system in use between 715-740 CE which redefined the province-district-neighbourhood system, establishing 50-home townships of 2-3 neighbourhoods each