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Shaku
The Japanese foot, standardised at 10/33 m (about 30.3 cm); a ken is 6 shaku.
See also: Ken
Rules that use the word
Plan on a grid of one ken. Set out the posts of a house on a square grid of one ken (six shaku, about 1.82 m) and size rooms, doors, screens and mats to fit the grid.
Kyoto mats and Edo mats. In the Kyoto system (kyō-ma) fix the mat (6.3 × 3.15 shaku, about 1.91 × 0.955 m) and set the posts outside it; in the Edo system (edo-ma) fix the post grid at 6 shaku and cut the mats to fit between the posts, making them smaller.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters China, Japan and Korea.
Nearby in the glossary
Setback · Sexpartite vault · Shaft · Shakkei · Shala · Shatyor · Shell · Shengqi