Edo Period: Converting the Volume of Rice and Sake to Liters
Convert the Edo-period units of measurement for rice and sake—koku, to, shō, and gō—to liters.
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1 koku = 10 to = 100 sho = 1,000 go = 10,000 shaku
1 sho = 1.8039068369647 liters
These are the conversion factors used in the calculations.
1 koku was the amount of rice consumed by 1 person over the course of 1 year. Since this amounts to eating 3 go per day, it seems people in the Edo period ate a lot of rice. Incidentally, while 1 bale of rice currently weighs 60 kg, during the Edo period its weight fluctuated between 2 to 5 to, and was standardized at 4 to in the Meiji era.
1 sho = 1.8039068369647 liters
These are the conversion factors used in the calculations.
1 koku was the amount of rice consumed by 1 person over the course of 1 year. Since this amounts to eating 3 go per day, it seems people in the Edo period ate a lot of rice. Incidentally, while 1 bale of rice currently weighs 60 kg, during the Edo period its weight fluctuated between 2 to 5 to, and was standardized at 4 to in the Meiji era.
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