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Hearst Museum object titled Balance, accession number 9-13632a-c, described as Balance; a) beam, wood, brass inlaid markings, 51 cm long; b) iron weight, 4.75cm; c) bamboo basket pan, 21cm across narrow end.

Hearst Museum object titled Scale, accession number 9-59, described as Bamboo scale. One side of this comparative scale shows measurements of Japan. Holland, England, France and a fifth country. The Japanese scale is the longest of the five and its ten inches make the longer of the Japanese foot measures. The other side, which is metrically graded to 300 millimeters and in additon shows five other scales. Scale and slider.