わどけい
和時計
1. clocks made in Japan, mainly in the Edo period; clocks that tell Japanese time
2. Japanese clockA Japanese clock is a mechanical clock that has been made to tell traditional Japanese time. Mechanical clocks were introduced into Japan by Jesuit missionaries or Dutch merchants in the 16th century. These clocks were of the lantern clock design, typically made of brass or iron, and used the relatively primitive verge and foliot escapement. Tokugawa Ieyasu owned a lantern clock of European manufacture.
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Read “Japanese clock” on English Wikipedia
Read “和時計” on Japanese Wikipedia
Read “Japanese clock” on DBpedia
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