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In the era of Shogun Government the Japanese measures had the sizes strictly established and they were controlled by two shops which had the rights of monopolization of their manufacturing and sales, and inspection of those instruments in service, approved by the authorities. The two shops constituted a craft-union called \"Za\" those days. They put their head offices respectively in Edo, namely Tokyo nowadays and Kyoto, and controlled separately eastern half and western half of Japan, dividing it to two parts. At present we have some essays about dimension of these measures among which complete concensus of opinions is not found yet. This is the reason why I investigated old literatures and remains, and referred to the history of origination of the craft-union \"Za\". Editor's Note : The essay could not be completed due to the author's death in March, 1945. Moreover the magazine \"Keiryo Kai\, which inserted the essay, went out of print because of shortage of paper during the war time, so the latter half of what he wrote could not be brought into the world.