Kirikosha (English name) jì lǐ gǔ chē

Japanese: 記里鼓車 - きりこしゃ（英語表記）jì lǐ gǔ chē

Since the Jin Dynasty (265-420) in China, this was one of the cars that was included in processions when the emperor went out, and it was a device that measured the distance traveled by the number of revolutions of the car. A wooden figure was mounted on the car and beat a drum every time one ri was traveled. The "procession car" described in the Roman book "Ten Books on Architecture" written at the end of the 1st century B.C.E. by Vitruvius and the "measurement car" used by Ino Tadataka for surveying during the Edo period both worked on the same principle, but both used gear mechanisms to read the number of revolutions of the wheel and did not have drums or wooden figures.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国，晋王朝(265‐420)以来，皇帝が外出するときの行列に加えられた車の一つで，車の回転数により走行距離を測る装置である。車上に木製の人形がおり，1里を行くごとに太鼓を打ちならした。西暦前1世紀末に書かれたローマのウィトルウィウスの《建築十書》に書かれた〈行程車〉や江戸時代に伊能忠敬が測量に使用した〈量程車〉はいずれも同じ原理であるが，両者はいずれも歯車仕掛けで車輪の回転数を読みとるもので，太鼓や木製の人形などはない。

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