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The next year, a weights and measurements law codified the Japanese system, taking its fundamental units to be the shaku and kan and deriving the others from them. [4] The law codified the values of the traditional and metric units in terms of one another, [4] but retained the traditional units as the formal standard and metric values as ...
The gō or cup is a traditional Japanese unit based on the ge which is equal to 10 shaku or 1 ⁄ 10 shō. It was officially equated with 2401 / 13310 liters in 1891. The gō is the traditional amount used for a serving of rice and a cup of sake in Japanese cuisine.
The ken (間) is a traditional Japanese unit of length, equal to six Japanese feet (shaku). The exact value has varied over time and location but has generally been a little shorter than 2 meters (6 ft 7 in). [1] [2] It is now standardized as 1.82 m. [3]
Japanese Nominal Structure as proposed by Akira Watanabe. In generative grammar, one proposed structure of Japanese nominal phrases includes three layers of functional projections: #P, CaseP, and QuantifierP. [5] Here, #P is placed above NP to explain Japanese's lack of plural morphology, and to make clear the # head is the stem of such ...
When the 1891 Japanese Weights and Measures Act was promulgated, it defined the shō unit as the capacity of the standard kyo-masu of 64827 cubic bu. [15] The same act also defined the shaku length as 10 ⁄ 33 metre. [15] The metric equivalent of the modern shō is 2401 ⁄ 1331 litres. [20] The modern koku is therefore 240,100 ⁄ 1331 litres ...
The traditional Japanese unit equated with a "cup" size is the gō, legally equated with 2,401 / 13,310 litre (≈ 180.4 ml/6.35 British imperial fluid ounces/6.1 US customary fluid ounces) in 1891, and is still used for reckoning amounts of rice and sake. The Japanese later defined a "cup" as 200 ml.
This is the system used with the traditional Japanese units of measurement. Several of the names are used "as is" to represent a fraction of a sun. The other system of representing these decimal fractions of rate or discount uses a system "shifted down" with a bu becoming a "one hundredth" and so on, and the unit for "tenth" becoming wari:
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).