tsubo

• “Her fingers moved along my spine, seeking the knotted tsubo points, pressing.”

  Quiller Bamboo

• “She worked on the tsubo point, and warmth flowed, and hope flowed with it.”

  Quiller Bamboo

• “Thus 2,500 _tsubo_ of ground (24 acres) were obtained for the building of a new _kyakubun goten_.”

  Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

• “These incomes were collected and transmitted by officials of the Bakufu, but not a tsubo of land was under the control of either sovereign or prince.”

  A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

• “The shiro is variously reckoned at from 5\% to 7.12 tsubo (1 tsubo = 36 square feet).”

  A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

• “Taking the shiro as 6 tsubo, the above three areas total 1000 acres approximately.”

  A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

• “The calculation was very simple: one tsubo corresponded to one mon, so that one kwan-mon represented one thousand tsubo for the purposes of this assessment.”

  A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

• “* The cho was equal to 10 tan, and the tan comprised 360 tsubo, the tsubo being a square of 6 feet side.”

  A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

• “One tsubo, a standard measure of property area in Japan, is 3.3 square meters or 35.5 square feet.”

  BusinessWeek.com -- Top News

• “Japanese doctors first recognized this syndrome around 1990 and named it Takotsubo cardiomyopathy; tako tsubo are octopus traps that resemble the unusual pot-like shape of the stricken heart.”

  The Seattle Times

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