Appliances and furniture
The shaku and the foot (almost the same, but different)
The Japanese shaku is 303.03 mm and the foot is 304.80 mm — both about a foot long, and neither the same. Lining them up at the left shows the right ends parting by 1.77 mm, a gap too thin to shade at full size, so the last 8 mm is enlarged twenty times beside it; stack thirty and the drawing is out by 53 mm.
This drawing comes from one YAML file. No shape was moved by hand.
Notes in the source (in Japanese)
1 尺 = 303.03mm、1 フィート = 304.80mm。差は 1.77mm(0.58%)。
どちらも「だいたい 30cm」だが、同じではない。1 本だけ見ても分からず、並べて端をそろえると、反対側がずれる。
| 1 インチ | 25.4mm ちょうど(1959 年 国際ヤード・ポンド協定) |
| 1 フィート | 12 インチ = 304.8mm ちょうど |
| 1 ヤード | 3 フィート = 914.4mm ちょうど |
| 1 尺 | 10/33 m ちょうど(1891 年 度量衡法。1959 年から取引には使えない)= 303.0303…mm |
尺は割り切れない。 メートルを 33 で割った 10 倍という決め方なので、小数では終わらない。フィートのほうは 25.4 の 12 倍で、ちょうど終わる。
0.58% は 1 本なら 1.77mm だが、10 本で 17.7mm、30 本で 53mm。京間の畳の長辺は 6 尺 3 寸(1,909.1mm)—— これをフィートで測ると 6.26 フィート。
出典:一宮市「計量制度の歴史」(1891 年 度量衡法で 1 尺 = 10/33 m。1959 年に尺貫法の取引使用を禁止、1966 年に土地・建物も)取得 2026-09-29。
この図は 1px = 0.833mm の縮尺どおり(scale)。画面の倍率で大きさは変わるが、3 本の長さの比は正しい。
Source (YAML)
examples/gallery/346-尺とフィート.zumen.yaml
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