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Tanaka Hisashige and His Myriad Year Clock: Its Technological Characteristics and Historical Background (2020)

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Tanaka Hisashige is well known today for his various ingenious inventions and for his construction of useful or entertaining machines, particularly his contrived automata dolls ( karakuri ningyō ). He is also known for his later involvement in the modernizing attempts of the Saga domain (present-day Saga prefecture) and as one of the founders of the company that is now Toshiba. He should also be remembered as the craftsman who designed and made the intricate machine called the ‘Myriad Year Clock’ (Fig. 1), or Mannen dokei , a masterpiece of Japanese craftsmanship, before the systematic introduction of Western technologies. In this paper, I

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Authors & Contributors
Frumer, Yulia
Ren Congcong
Jennifer Robertson
Takashi Nakajima
Takahiro, Nishiyama
Daniel White
Concepts
Automata; robotics; cyborgs
Crafts and craftspeople
Technology and culture
Inventors and invention
Technology
Clocks and Watches
Time Periods
21st century
19th century
18th century
20th century, late
Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868)
17th century
Places
Japan
Europe
China
Roman Empire
Byzantium
United States
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