Goryeoshaku - Small peacock

Japanese: 高麗尺 - こまじゃく
Goryeoshaku - Small peacock
A ruler used in architecture during the Yamato period. It was named after the Koreans who brought it to Japan. It is a scale where 1 shaku is 1 shaku 1 sun 7 bu 6 rin (approximately 356 mm) of the Kanejaku (carpenter's scale). In the Ritsuryo system, 1 shaku 2 sun is considered a ta shaku, and the Ritsuryo Shukai shows that 5 shaku is equivalent to 6 shaku of modern shaku. Since a ta shaku in the Nara period is approximately 9 sun 8 bu of the Kanejaku, 1 shaku is 1.2 times that, or 1 shaku 1 sun 7 bu 6 rin. This scale was used to measure land before 713. When the debate over the reconstruction of Horyu-ji Temple arose, those who were against the reconstruction famously used the komei shaku as evidence.

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Japanese:
大和時代の建築などに用いられたものさし。高麗人が伝えたというところからこの名がある。曲尺 (かねじゃく) の1尺1寸7分6厘 (約 356mm) を1尺とする尺度。令制では1尺2寸を大尺とし,『令集解』には,高麗尺5尺が今尺の大6尺に相当することがみえている。奈良時代の大尺が曲尺の約9寸8分にあたるから,その 1.2倍,1尺1寸7分6厘が高麗尺の1尺となる。この尺度は和銅6 (713) 年以前には土地をはかるのに用いられていた。法隆寺再建論争が起ったとき,非再建論者が,法隆寺の建築が高麗尺を使用したものであることを論拠としたことは有名である。

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