Trail of Time Time Measurement with Incense in East Asia

Name: Trail of Time Time Measurement with Incense in East Asia
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ISBN: 9780521021630

ISBN-10: 0521021634

ISBN-13: 9780521021630

Edition: 2005

Authors: Silvio A. Bedini

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This book is a scholarly study of a virtually unknown aspect of the history of horology (timekeeping), compiled from Chinese and Japanese historical and literary records, some of which are translated and published here for the first time. Incense timekeepers played an important role in early Chinese social and technological history, in addition to their use for time measurement. They were used in temples for religious rites, in agricultural regions for regulating water for irrigation, in palaces and government offices, and in the studies of scholars. A fascinating compendium of knowledge about a neglected aspect of Oriental culture, this book will appeal not only to historians of China and…

Book details

Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/3/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 7.44" wide x 9.72" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgements


Conventions



Time Measurement and Incense in East Asia



Early East Asian time measurement



Incense and the populace



Incense in religious rites



Incense for time measurement



The Incense Seal in China



The incense seal of AvalokitTsvara



In Chinese Buddhist rites



In Chinese civil life



In Chinese social life



In Chinese and foreign writings



The Incense Seal in Japan



Japanese kobandokei



In Japanese Buddhist rites



In Japanese civil life



The fire in the smoke


Appendices


Bibliography


Illustrations


Index