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Hyakki Yagyō scroll (a ruler in real size on the image)

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The Hyakki Yagyō scroll, a mid-Edo handscroll held by the General Library, the University of Tokyo. From its published height (28 cm) and the height of the image, the real size of one pixel was estimated and added to the manifest as IIIF physdim (a way to state real size). Rulers in cm appear along the top and left of the image, and the ticks get finer as you zoom. The gear at the top left changes the unit (mm, cm, in) and colours.

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