著者

今村,豁子

出版者

日本計量史学会

雑誌

計量史研究

巻号頁・発行日

vol.9, no.1, 1987-12-30

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Among cloth rules in Japan, a carpenter's rule was the regular one and later cloth rules called a "Gofukujaku" and a "Kujirajaku" of 1shaku 2sun 5bu long, both being adopted in a private use, were brought into the world around the Muromachi era. the Kujirajaku spread from the Kansai Province to the vicinities of the Kantoh Province and was used as a cloth rule until it was abolished at the end of 1958 by the Measurement Law. This article is the report of my investigation on the cloth rule which Family Takakura used in the Edo era by means of its historical materials for the ultimate purpose to clarify the period and provinces in which the Kujimajaku was in use. Family Takakura was one of the former aristcratic families, in charge of making clothes which Family of Emperor or Family of Shohgun had on the ceremonies or of dressing them in the court. Family Takakura has kept a gereat many of records till now in order to hand down the family work to the posterity without failure. The memorandum for dimmensions called "Sunpoh Todomegaki", gives us the record about the kinds of rules in use, which enables us to know the transition of rules. A good look at the above Memorandum according to the period allows us to understand the process how colth rules had been gradually unified to the Kujirajaku through the period when three kinds of rules, early carpenter's rules, Gofukujaku and Kujirajaku, were used together. Judging from addresses of dressers of the clothes and rules to be used, Family Takakura seems to have adopted Kujirajaku at earlier time. Even if the Family unified rules for clothes to Kujirajaku, accessories of the clothes had to be made by craftsmen except the Family, who used to normally adopt carpenter's rules. Exceptionally the string attached to the clothes were sometimes measured with Kujirajaku. still I tried to compare dimmensions of the memorandum "Sunpoh Todomegaki" with those of an older material, but failed in knowing when Kujirajaku was used at first.