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On the use of the Chinese Hsuan-ming calendar to predict the times of eclipses in Japan
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2009
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According to the Nihongi, a chronicle of Japan written in A.D. 720, the first Chinese calendar was brought to Japan in the year A.D. 554. It is now generally agreed that before this time there was no native calendrical system and that earlier dates given in the Nihongi were calculated retrospectively, and in some cases inaccurately, using Chinese systems (Nakayama, 1969: 7–8). The Chinese calendar was not only a method for keeping track of the days but also a complete astronomical system for calculating the movements of the heavenly bodies.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 61 , Issue 3 , October 1998 , pp. 527 - 533
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- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1998
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