In describe the remote countryside, there was the vulgar proverb, 'Three ri (the old Japanese unit of distance, approximately 3.927 km or 2.44 miles per ri) to a liquor shop, and two ri to a tofu shop.'
辺鄙な田舎であることを表すのに「酒屋へ三里豆腐屋へ二里」という俚諺もある。