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Traditional Japanese units of measurement or the shakkanhō (尺貫法) is the traditional system of measurement used by the people of the Japanese archipelago. It is largely based on the Chinese system , which spread to Japan and the rest of the Sinosphere in antiquity.
Tōdai-ji's Kon-dō's facade is 7 ken across. The ken is based on the Chinese jian.It uses the same Chinese character as the Korean kan.. A building's proportions were (and, to a certain extent, still are) measured in ken, as for example in the case of Enryaku-ji's Konponchū-dō (), which measures 11×6 bays (37.60 m × 23.92 m), of which 11×4 are dedicated to the worshipers.
In 1885 Japan signed the Convention du Mètre and in 1886 converted all of its traditional measures to the metric system. Masu existed in many sizes, typically covering the range from one gō ( 一合枡 , ichigōmasu , c. 180 mL) , one Shō ( ja: 一升桝 ) , isshōmasu c. 1.8 L) to one to ( 一斗枡 , ittomasu , c. 18 L) .
Although this was referred to as shin kyō-masu or the "new" measuring cup in its early days, [18] its use supplanted the old measure in most areas in Japan, until the only place still left using the old cup ("edo-masu") was the city of Edo, [19] and the Edo government passed an edict declaring the kyō-masu the official nationwide measure ...
The Chinese sheng (Chinese: 升; pinyin: shēng), called sho in Japan and seung in Korea, also called Chinese liter, is a traditional unit of volume in East Asia.It originated from China and later spread to Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam and other places. [1]
Shaku (Japanese: 尺) or Japanese foot [1] [2] is a Japanese unit of length derived (but varying) from the Chinese chi, originally based upon the distance measured by a human hand from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the forefinger [3] [a] (compare span). Traditionally, the length varied by location or use, but it is now standardized as 10/ ...
Two separate foliot balances allow this 18th-century Japanese clock to run at two different speeds to indicate unequal hours.. A Japanese clock (和時計, wadokei) is a mechanical clock that has been made to tell traditional Japanese time, a system in which daytime and nighttime are always divided into six periods whose lengths consequently change with the season.
It is used to make traditional Japanese clothes, textile room dividers, sails, and other traditional cloth items. Tanmono (物, mono is a placeholder name [clarification needed]) are woven in units of tan, a traditional unit of measurement for cloth roughly analogous to the bolt, about 35–40 centimetres (14–16 in) by about 13 yards (12 m).