著者

高田 誠二 Seiji TAKATA 久米美術館

出版者

日本計量史学会

雑誌

計量史研究 = Bulletin of the Society of Hist[o]rical Metrology, Japan (ISSN:02867214)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.26, no.1, pp.29-34, 2004-06-30

参考文献数

9

被引用文献数

4

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Amano Kiyosi (1907-1945), who was an able physicist and a distinguished historian of science but killed by the air raid 4 months before the termination of the W.W.II, performed extensive researches, both bibliographical and experimental, on the Japanese weights and measures of historical importance. Summarized in this paper are the achievements as well as the legacy of his researches, particularly on l) the relation between the old Japanese and the modern Metric units of length, 2) the variety of the local standards of volume in the feudalistic era of Japan and 3) the actual mass of the traditional weights preserved by several museums in Japan.