Compare kujira shaku bu.
In Japan, 19ᵗʰ – 20ᵗʰ century, a unit of length used for cloth, approximately 3²⁶⁄₃₃ meters. A jo (1 jo = 10 shaku) according to the kujira shaku standard, see shaku, definition 1.
United Nations, 1966.
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