_Koku_ (roughly 40 gals, or 5 bush.) = 39.703 gals, or 4.960 bush. = 10 tō. According to American measurements, there are 47.653 gals, (liquid) and 5.119 bush, (dry) in a koku. A koku of rice is 313-1/2 lbs. (British). A koku of imported rice is, however, 330-1/2 lbs. The following koku must also be noted: ordinary barley, 231 lbs.; naked barley 301.1 lbs.; wheat 288.7 lbs.; proso millet, 247.9 lbs.; foxtail millet, 280.9 lbs.; barnyard millet, 165.2 lbs.; brickaheat, 247.9 lbs.; maize, 289.2 lbs.; soya beans, 286.5 lbs.; azuki (red) beans, 319.9 lbs.; horse beans, 266.6 lbs.; peas, 306.5 lbs. _Hyō_ (roughly 2 bush.) = 1.985 bush. = 4 tō = bale of rice. _Tō_ (roughly 4 gals, or 1/2 bush.) = 3.970 gals, or .496 bush, or 1.985 pecks = 10 shō. _Shō_ (roughly 1-1/2 qts.) = 1.588 qts. or 0.198 pecks or 108-1/2 cub. in. = 10 gō. _Gō_ (roughly 1/3 pint) =.3176 pints or 0.019 pecks. Rice is not bagged but baled, and a bale is 4 tō or 1 hyō. WEIGHT _Kwan_ or _kwamme_ (roughly 8-1/4 lbs.) = 8.267 lbs. av. or 10.047 lbs. troy = 1,000 momme. _Kin_ (catty) = 1.322 lbs. av. or 1.607 troy = 160 momme. _Momme_ = 2.116 drams or 2.411 dwts. According to American measurements a momme is 0.132 oz. av. and 0.120 oz. troy. _Hyakkin_ (_picul_) = 100 kin = 132.277 lbs. A stone is 1.693, a cwt. is 13.547, and a ton 270.950 kwamme. LOCAL ADMINISTRATIVE TERMS _Ken_.--Prefecture. There are forty-three ken and Hokkaido. Ken and fu are made up of the former sixty-six provinces. Sometimes the name of the ken and the name of the capital of the ken are the same: example, Shidzuoka-ken, capital Shidzuoka. _Fu_.--Three prefectures are municipal prefectures and are called not ken but fu. They are Tokyo-fu, Kyoto-fu and Osaka-fu. _Gun_ (_kōri_).--Division of a prefecture, a county or rural district. There are 636 gun. Gun are now being done away with. _Shi_.--City. There are seventy-nine cities. _Cho_.--A town or rather a district preponderatingly urban. There are 1,333 cho. _Machi_.--Japanese name for the Chinese character cho. _Son_.--A village or rather a district preponderatingly rural. There are 10,839 son. _Mura_.--Japanese name for a Chinese character son. A true idea of the Japanese village is obtained as soon as one mentally defines it as a commune. There may be a rural community called son or a municipal community called cho. The cho or son consists of a number of oaza, that is, big aza, which in turn consists of a number of ko-aza or small aza. A ko-aza may consist of twenty or thirty dwellings, that is, a hamlet, or it may be only one dwelling. It may be ten acres in extent or fifty. I found that the population of a particular municipality was 10,000 in seven big oaza comprising twenty-two ko-aza. [Illustration: THE ROOM, OVERLOOKING THE PACIFIC, IN WHICH MUCH OF THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN The feet of the chair and table are fitted with wooden slats so as not to injure the _tatami_. Electricity as a matter of course!]