tsubo

She worked on the tsubo point, and warmth flowed, and hope flowed with it.

Quiller Bamboo Hall, Adam 1991

Her fingers moved along my spine, seeking the knotted tsubo points, pressing.

Quiller Bamboo Hall, Adam 1991

Thus 2,500 _tsubo_ of ground (24 acres) were obtained for the building of a new _kyakubun goten_.

Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

These incomes were collected and transmitted by officials of the Bakufu, but not a tsubo of land was under the control of either sovereign or prince.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

The shiro is variously reckoned at from 5\% to 7.12 tsubo (1 tsubo = 36 square feet).

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

* The cho was equal to 10 tan, and the tan comprised 360 tsubo, the tsubo being a square of 6 feet side.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Taking the shiro as 6 tsubo, the above three areas total 1000 acres approximately.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

The calculation was very simple: one tsubo corresponded to one mon, so that one kwan-mon represented one thousand tsubo for the purposes of this assessment.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

One tsubo, a standard measure of property area in Japan, is 3.3 square meters or 35.5 square feet.

BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

Japanese doctors first recognized this syndrome around 1990 and named it Takotsubo cardiomyopathy; tako tsubo are octopus traps that resemble the unusual pot-like shape of the stricken heart.

The Seattle Times 2011