Lexicographical Neighbors of Koban
| koa koaita koala koala bear koala bears koalas koan koanlike koans koaps | koas koashvite kob koba koban (current term) kobang kobangs kobans kobellite kobo | kobold kobolds kobos kobs kobza kobzar kobzari kobzars kobzas |
Literary usage of Koban
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Troja: Results of the Latest Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Homer by Heinrich Schliemann, Archibald Henry Sayce (1884)
"Nevertheless the celebrated explorer thinks that the necropolis of Upper-koban
may probably belong to the tenth century before our era. ..."
2. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and Is": A Handbook of Old Japan by Richard Hildreth, Ernest Wilson Clement (1907)
"1 It is said that these coins arc called koban, but that ancient name can ...
The old koban of Ka'mpfer would be worth at present rates about eleven taels ..."
3. A Japanese Grammar by Johann Joseph Hoffmann (1868)
"represents the half koban. The { koban is an oblong coin with the superscription
... The { koban is represented by an oblong coin of silver and gilt, ..."
4. Workshop Receipts by Ernest Spon, Charles George Warnford Lock, Robert Haldane (1889)
"The coarsest filings, whether of pure gold, koban, or silver, are taken and rolled
out flat on an ¡run plate. Of Hirame there are 8 kinds each. ..."
5. Coins of Japan by Neil Gordon Munro (1904)
"In the same year a koban of small size, called the "Sho Ji" koban, from the presence
... In the tirst year of Manen, I860, a diminutive koban, Plate 21, No. ..."
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