traditional Japanese land-area units
Collective term for 町 (chō), 段 (tan), 畝 (se), and 歩 (bu), used historically for measuring rice fields, forests, and other land. Now largely replaced by metric units, but still encountered in older documents and some rural contexts.
On this map, the area of the rice paddies is recorded in the traditional units of chō, tan, se, and bu.
One component unit; 1 町 ≈ 0.992 hectares.
One component unit; 1 段 = 300 歩 ≈ 992 m².
One component unit; 1 畝 = 30 歩 ≈ 99.2 m².
The smallest unit in this set; 1 歩 ≈ 3.306 m².
Compound of the four traditional Japanese land-area units: 町 (chō), 段 (tan), 畝 (se), and 歩 (bu). The reading ちょうたんせぶ reflects the on'yomi of each character.