His height was 6 shaku 2 sun (roughly 6 feet, 2 inches (1.88m)
Are you telling me the British and Japanese independently came up with the same fucked up measurement system?
Edit: Holy shit I didn't know comment Karma went this high. Thank you for the awards, strangers. I've learned from some of the comments below that the shaku/sun system is actually base 10 and they just coincidentally line up at 6 big units, 2 small units. Here is the article OP posted that I was referring to.
jackbobevolved on May 13rd, 2021 at 22:50 UTC »
His story is absolutely incredible. Definitely worth digging into.
6___-4--___0 on May 14th, 2021 at 00:13 UTC »
From the article:
Are you telling me the British and Japanese independently came up with the same fucked up measurement system?
Edit: Holy shit I didn't know comment Karma went this high. Thank you for the awards, strangers. I've learned from some of the comments below that the shaku/sun system is actually base 10 and they just coincidentally line up at 6 big units, 2 small units. Here is the article OP posted that I was referring to.
You_Dont_Party on May 14th, 2021 at 00:43 UTC »
For those interested, here’s a really interesting comment from r/AskHistorians that does a great job of showing what we have actual sources saying about him.