町ちょう段たん畝せ歩ぶ

noun

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.

• この地ち図ずでは、田たんぼの面めん積せきが町ちょう段たん畝せ歩ぶで記しるされている。

  On this map, the area of the rice paddies is recorded in the traditional units of chō, tan, se, and bu.