THE EIGHTH HOUR ___ Ghost stories in the artwork of Katsushika Hokusai, Tsukiyoka Yoshitoshi, Maruyama Ōkyo, Mariko Mori and Miwa Yanagi
According to the ancient Japanese system of time measurement,the eighth hour, yatsudoki, corresponded to our 2 after midnight. Each Japanese hour was equal to two European hours,so there were only six hours instead of twelve: these six hours were counted backwards, i.e. 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4 … So the ninth hour corresponded to […]