Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Shaku (笏) is the Japanese name for a flat ritual tablet or scepter of Chinese origin. The original subject is 笏 hù in China. According to the ranks, each class hold hù made of different material. For instance, Chinese emperors use jade hù (more correctly called 圭 gui), princes use ivory hù, and court officials use bamboo hù. Shaku usually made of woods like Japanese yew, holly, cherry, sakaki or Japanese cedar, the shaku is often seen in portraits of shoguns, emperors and noblemen but is now used mostly by Shinto priests (the kannushi).The use of the shaku as a ritual baton originated in ancient China, where in Mandarin it is called hù with the same Chinese character. The standard reading for the character used to write shaku is kotsu, but that is also one of the readings for the character bone (骨, hone) and is thus avoided to prevent bad luck. The character's unusual pronunciation seems to derive from the fact the baton is approximately one shaku (an old unit of measurement equivalent to 30.3 cm) in length."@en }
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- Shaku_(ritual_baton) abstract "Shaku (笏) is the Japanese name for a flat ritual tablet or scepter of Chinese origin. The original subject is 笏 hù in China. According to the ranks, each class hold hù made of different material. For instance, Chinese emperors use jade hù (more correctly called 圭 gui), princes use ivory hù, and court officials use bamboo hù. Shaku usually made of woods like Japanese yew, holly, cherry, sakaki or Japanese cedar, the shaku is often seen in portraits of shoguns, emperors and noblemen but is now used mostly by Shinto priests (the kannushi).The use of the shaku as a ritual baton originated in ancient China, where in Mandarin it is called hù with the same Chinese character. The standard reading for the character used to write shaku is kotsu, but that is also one of the readings for the character bone (骨, hone) and is thus avoided to prevent bad luck. The character's unusual pronunciation seems to derive from the fact the baton is approximately one shaku (an old unit of measurement equivalent to 30.3 cm) in length.".