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> From: Richardson Paul <umaryu@...>
>Subject: Re: Re: Clocks
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>HI James and others
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>thanks some really nice info on time keeping in Japan
>during and after the Edo period, but what about before
>then
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>Surely they didnt wait for the cock to crow. There
>must have been some method of time keeping so that
>occassions and events could start at a set time.
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Certainly nothing mechanical. Maybe sundials, stars or candles but no
mechanical clocks. Why start anything at an exact time after all? That's
a Western obsession of that period after all.
> From: Eponymous13@...
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>Hey there. Me again.
> Maybe I can be of some help. (Maybe not, time will tell. 8-)!)
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I seem to remember reading something about that myself.
Yours,
Jim Eckman