English

Noun

shaku ‎(plural shaku or shakus)

1. The Japanese foot, a traditional Japanese unit of length equal to 10 sun or ¹/₁₀ of a jō, now standardized as equal to ¹⁰/₃₃ of a meter.

Synonyms

• Japanese foot

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:shaku.

References

• De Visser, M.W. (2003) Dragon in China and Japan, ISBN 978-0766158399
• Engel, Heino (1989) Measure and Construction of the Japanese House, ISBN 978-0804814928
• Field, Norma (1997) From My Grandmother's Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo, ISBN 978-0520208445
• Jackson, David (2002) Japanese Cabinetry: The Art & Craft of Tansu, ISBN 978-1586851132
• Masaaki, Hatsumi (2006) Japanese Sword Fighting: Secrets of the Samurai, ISBN 978-4770021984
• Mezur, Katherine (2005) Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies: Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness, ISBN 978-1403967121
• Tarver, D.E. (2004) The Book of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi, ISBN 978-0595301249
• Wheeler, Post (2006) The Sacred Scriptures of The Japanese, ISBN 978-1425487874

Anagrams

• shuka

Japanese

Romanization

shaku

1. rōmaji reading of しゃく