Hyakkin (picul) = 100 kin = 132.277 lbs.
A stone is 1.693, a cwt. is 13.547, and a ton 270.950 kwamme.
LOCAL ADMINISTRATIVE TERMS
Ken.—Prefecture. There are forty-three ken and Hokkaido. Ken and fu are made up of the former sixty-six provinces. Sometimes the name of the ken and the name of the capital of the ken are the same: example, Shidzuoka-ken, capital Shidzuoka.
Fu.—Three prefectures are municipal prefectures and are called not ken but fu. They are Tokyo-fu, Kyoto-fu and Osaka-fu.
Gun (kōri).—Division of a prefecture, a county or rural district. There are 636 gun. Gun are now being done away with.
Shi.—City. There are seventy-nine cities.
Cho.—A town or rather a district preponderatingly urban. There are 1,333 cho.
Machi.—Japanese name for the Chinese character cho.
Son.—A village or rather a district preponderatingly rural. There are 10,839 son.