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View full screenPillar clock, or shaku-dokei, with time pointer adjustable transversely to register with one of a number of hair scales corresponding to the month marked on a lacquered plate: Japan, before 1872
T.1946.1
Japan, East Asia
1800 - 1870
Lacquered plate, wooden case
Earth in Space (29 Jul 2011)
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