Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute - Yulia Frumer - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226516448 - January 25, 2018
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Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute

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Before Western clocks came to Japan, hours shifted in length with the length of the day through the seasons; this book looks at how standard hours arrived and how Japanese life adapted to them.

272 pages, 10 color plates, 40 halftones, 5 line drawings

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released January 25, 2018
ISBN13 9780226516448
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 272
Dimensions 159 × 230 × 22 mm   ·   534 g

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