Jan.Feb.Mar.April.

Mean temperature

36.9 38.4 44.2 54.3

Mean max. temperature

46.8 47.5 53.4 62.9

Mean min. temperature

28.6 30.4 35.3 45.6

Absolute max. temp.

97.9 (July 14, 1891)

Absolute min. temp.

15.4 (Jan. 13, 1876)

Mean rainfall

2.14 3.03 4.32 5.04

No. rainy days

7.2 9.1 12.4 14.8

Days with snow

4.0 4.5 2.8 0.1

Mean barometer
(reduced freez. point)

29.96 29.97 29.95 29.94

Mean direction of wind

N.22°W. N.16°W. N.8°W. N.51°E.
May.June.July.Aug.

Mean temperature

61.9 68.8 75.8 78.2

Mean max. temperature

70.2 76.1 83.0 86.0

Mean min. temperature

53.5 62.2 69.6 71.8

Absolute max. temp.

Absolute min. temp.

Mean rainfall

5.91 6.52 5.01 4.37

No. rainy days

13.3 14.4 14.1 11.8

Days with snow

... ... ... ...

Mean barometer
(reduced freez. point)

29.84 29.77 29.77 29.79

Mean direction of wind

S.44°E. S.39°E. S.20°E. S.21°E.
Sept.Oct.Nov.Dec.

Mean temperature

71.6 60.3 50.1 41.3

Mean max. temperature

78.9 68.9 60.1 52.0

Mean min. temperature

65.5 53.1 41.7 32.4

Absolute max. temp.

Absolute min. temp.

Mean rainfall

8.12 7.07 4.35 2.02

No. rainy days

16.2 13.1 9.0 6.3

Days with snow

... ... 0.2 1.2

Mean barometer
(reduced freez. point)

29.87 29.98 29.99 29.95

Mean direction of wind

N.47°E. N.4°W. N.14°W. N.25°W.
Year.
Mean temperature 56.8
Mean max. temperature 65.5
Mean min. temperature 49.1

Absolute max. temp.

Absolute min. temp.

Mean rainfall 57.90
No. rainy days141.6
Days with snow 12.8

Mean barometer
(reduced freez. point)

29.90
Mean direction of wind N.1°W.

Hokkaidō (Northern Sea Road). Oshima, Shiribeshi, Iburi, Ishikari, Hitaka, Tokachi, Teshiwo, Kushiro, Nemuro, Kitami (all on the island of Yezo), and Chishima, or the Kurile Islands.

Ryūkyū (Loo Choo) Islands. This group constituted one, the 85th, Kuni.

The following is the list of Japanese Prefectures (Ken and Fu):—

The Fu number three: Tōkyō, Kyōto, and Ōsaka.

The Ken number forty-three: Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gumma, Nagano, Yamanashi, Shizuoka, Aichi, Miye, Gifu, Shiga, Fukui, Ishikawa, Toyama, Niigata, Fukushima, Miyagi, Yamagata, Akita, Iwate, Aomori, Nara, Wakayama, Hyōgo, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Shimane, Tottori, Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, Kōchi, Nagasaki, Saga, Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Ōita, Miyazaki, Kagoshima, and Okinawa (Ryūkyū Islands).

Hokkaidō and Formosa are at present administered as “territories” by the Imperial Government, although the former has recently been granted a small measure of local self-government.

Tables of Japanese Money, Weight, and Measure[198]

Length (Sashi). Japanese Weights and Measures.

As the use of the Japanese weights and measures is becoming more and more frequent in reports and books from the Far East, the following tables will be found useful to all persons who wish to ascertain the equivalents of the Japanese terms in similar terms in use in the United States and in England:—