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1. brill.com › view › journalsTime in Old Japan: In Search of a Paradigm - Brill

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   Mar 28, 2017 · Various attempts have been made to systematize fundamental patterns of temporal organization and to establish links between these patterns and natural and cultural evolution. This paper compares three pertinent theories of time in the light of evidence from Japanese cultural history: the hierarchical theory of time by J. T. Fraser, the fourfold paradigm of time imageries by Y. Maki, and the ...

   • Author: Raji C. Steineck

   • Publish Year: 2017

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3. cordis.europa.eu › article › idPerception of time in Medieval Japan | TIMEJ Project ... - CORDIS

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   Jan 26, 2024 · Historical sources revealed: how time was expressed and described; the rules guiding action; and their articulated ideas about time. Two key findings relate to the team’s study of monasteries and their use of calendars and clock-time to schedule and coordinate activities.

4. www.researchgate.net › publication › 315941687_TimeTime in Old Japan: In Search of a Paradigm - ResearchGate

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   Mar 28, 2017 · The analysis is based upon the morphologies of time developed by (2017) and adapted by Raji Steineck (2017), specifically a differentiation of linear, cyclic, and circular time. The analysis of ...

5. medium.com › japonica-publication › the-uniquenessThe Uniqueness of Japanese Time. In Japan’s historic ...

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   Feb 1, 2023 · An ittoki clock at the Matsumoto Timepiece Museum. Photo by Author. Japan’s Unfixed Time. Based on the Chinese horoscope, a day was divided into 12 segments, each called an ittoki (一刻, one ...

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6. journals.sagepub.com › doi › 10The `Civilization' of Time: Japan and the Adoption of the ...

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   6. By the 1930s, Japan had begun to project itself as a `civilization', though not toward the western nations but toward the `barbarians' of Micronesia (the colony Japan took over from Germany after the First World War). The idea was best described in a popular cartoon Boken Dankichi (Dankichi the Adventurer) (1933-9). The protagonist, a ...

   • Author: Nishimoto Ikuko

   • Publish Year: 1997

7. japantoday.com › category › featuresThe 'wadokei': the old way of measuring time in Japan

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   Aug 27, 2021 · Until 1872, when Emperor Meiji did away with the lunar calendar, there were no Western-style clocks in Japan. Instead, people used wadokei (和時計 Japanese clocks). A Japanese day only had 12 hours. The length of an hour changed with the seasons, so a daytime hour in winter was sorter than a daytime hour in summer.

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   How did Japanese think about history?

   • Over the centuries a complex interplay of ideas led to changes in Japanese thinking about history. This thinking reflects Buddhist theology mediated by the Chinese and Korean texts in which it came to Japan; such thinking also re- flects Confucian philosophy that entered in a similar way.

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   How did Japan's time system work?

   • It’s natural to divide daytime into a few separate periods: early morning, mid-morning, noon, early afternoon, mid-afternoon, sunset. And this is exactly how Japan’s time system worked. What mattered was not some fixed amount of time, but where we were in the day.

   The Uniqueness of Japanese Time - Medium

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   How did Japan's unfixed time work?

   • Japan’s unfixed time was used for hundreds of years during the Edo Period until the modernization of the Meiji Era. Here’s how it worked: An ittoki clock at the Matsumoto Timepiece Museum. Photo by Author. Based on the Chinese horoscope, a day was divided into 12 segments, each called an ittoki (一刻, one toki).

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   How were Japanese clocks made?

   • Most Japanese clocks were made in the shape of a lantern called a Yagura-dokei 櫓時計 or a tower called a Dai-dokei 台時計. But instead of converting Japan to fixed mechanical time, these clock makers came up with ingenious ways of adjusting the mechanical clocks for Japan’s unfixed time.

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   Is Japanese historical consciousness linear?

   • In this essay it will be argued that Japanese historical consciousness is indeed linear in form and has been linear since the dawn of recorded history in Japan. But the residue of an earlier and simpler sense of time always conditioned the linearity of Japanese perceptions about history. A comparison of Japanese no-

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   What is Japan's unfixed time system?

   • This unfixed time system, called futeijihō (不定時法) in Japanese, is also called the “temporal hour system” or “seasonal time system.” Japan’s unfixed time was used for hundreds of years during the Edo Period until the modernization of the Meiji Era. Here’s how it worked: An ittoki clock at the Matsumoto Timepiece Museum. Photo by Author.

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9. www.jstor.org › stable › 1854917Time and History in Japan

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   The Japanese sense of history differs from the Chinese but owes its origin to the process of adapting Chinese thought to Japan before and during the Nara period (710-94). Japanese cosmogonic myths were set down in writing at that. time, principally in the Kojiki ("Record of Ancient Matters") and the Nihon shoki.