Moveable rotating calendar mounted on elaborate wave-base with rabbit crest
Kubo Shunman Japanese
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This picture calendar (egoyomi) depicts a storyteller explaining a kontenki渾天儀, a type of armillary sphere or astrolabe, which usually would have consisted of a spherical framework of rings showing celestial bodies. Here it has been cleverly replaced with moveable calendar.
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