Two kinds of units with the shaku remain in Japan of today, one is kane-jaku (generally called 'shaku' simply) and the other is kujira-jaku whose unit length of the shaku is 1.25 times longer than that of the kane-jaku. 今日の日本では曲尺(かねじゃく。単に「尺」と言えばこちらを指す)とその1.25倍の長さの鯨尺(くじらしゃく)が残っている。 |