The trail of time = Shih-chien ti tsu-chi : time measurement with incense in East Asia
This work is a fascinating compendium of information about a neglected aspect of East Asian culture and of the history of timekeeping. Incense timekeeping devices played important roles in early Chinese and Japanese social and technological history in addition to their use for measuring time
Print Book, English, 1994
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994