shaku
Noun
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shaku (plural shaku or shakus)
The Japanese foot, a traditional Japanese unit of length equal to 10 sun or /10 of a jō, now standardized as equal to /33 of a meter.
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New Dance- Marvellous Benjy: The Nigerian music industry goes through numerous phases of dance styles; Galala, makossa, Skelewu, shaku shaku and so on.
The Muslim Rights Concern has said that by featuring hijab-clad women dancing Shaku Shaku in his latest video, Falz has offended Nigerian Muslims.
However, nihontō of longer lengths also existed, including lengths up to 78 cm (2 shaku 5 sun 5 bu).
However, some daitō were designed with blades slightly shorter than 2 shaku.
Thus, there may sometimes be confusion about the blade lengths, depending on which shaku value is being assumed when converting to metric or U.S. customary measurements.
Traditionally one does not pour one’s own drink, which is known as tejaku (手酌), but instead members of a party pour for each other, which is known as shaku (酌).