Money
The names of old money live on in Japanese proverbs such as haya oki wa san mon no toku, literally "Waking early gets you three mon", comparable to the English language proverb, "Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
| Unit | Equivalent to | |
|---|---|---|
| Romanized | Kanji | |
| 1 mon | 文 | |
| 1 hiki | 疋 | 10 mon |
| 1 kanmon | 貫文 | 100 hiki |
Read more about this topic: Japanese Units Of Measurement
Famous quotes containing the word money:
“The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God’s ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.”
—Norman O. Brown (b. 1913)
“The want of money is the root of all evil.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)