Shaku


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Shaku

A unit of length in Japan equivalent to approximately one foot.
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At parties or business dinners members pour sake into each other's cups as a gesture of politeness and bonding called shaku.
Kampai Japan! The Japanese Sake Fair 2017
Shaku Zula also had a good fight with Midaawi before the former earned the third place by half length.
Lukasek, Karraar bag Wathnan Cup
Tenders are invited for Construction of Drain near Kamate, Mane, Satawar and Shaku Bhadaji~s home in ward No.
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Micah Auerback contributes the seventh chapter, "A Closer Look at Zen at War: The Battlefield Chaplaincy of Shaku Soen in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)," which uses Shaku Soen's Diary of Subjugating Demons to illustrate the role of Zen chaplains during the Russo-Japanese war.
A review of Buddhism and violence: militarism and Buddhism in modern Asia
16) kotsu wooden slat/spatula carried by court officials as a scepter of the office [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] it was the homophone of kotsu [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (bone) the pronunciation was modified into shaku (17) shine according to kun-yomi (1) (pronunciation): rice [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] it was the homophone of the imperative of the verb shinu (to die) the pronunciation was modified into yone
An historical perspective on women's speech in Japanese
All my profit will go to SANRAL," David Shaku, a private taxi operator, said outside Devonshire Hotel in Bramfortain, Johannesburg.
E-tolling implementation in South Africa faces "strong" resistance
in the Shaku Nihongi's citations of the collected "Private
The Jinshin Rebellion and the politics of historical narrative in early Japan
Non-naturalized are: daimio, dairi, inro, itzebu, kago, k'ai shu, kanji, kirin, kobang, Rinzai, sennin, seppuku, shaku, shakudo, shippo, soroban, soshi.
Chinese loanwords in the OED
Skyhigh," Horror; producers, Hitoshi Endo, Hiroshi Dome, Ikuhide Yokouchi; director, Ryuhei Kitamura; cast, Yumiko Shaku, Takao Osawa, Shosuke Tanihara.
What's for sale
1991); CHU SHAKU KAISHAHO [COMPANY LAW COMMENTARY] (Katsuro Ueyanagi et al.
The puzzling divergence of corporate law: evidence and explanations from Japan and the United States
To show how this concept has carried over to Japan, Shaku Soyen, one of the first Japanese to try to explain Zen Buddhism to Americans, said, "Most people imagine that the individual is the final reality, stands by itself, has nothing to do with other fellow individuals; in fact their existence is tolerated insofar as it does not interfere with his own interests.
The yin/yang of management
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