![]() Reference extracted from World Digital Library: John Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 2001).|Iwakiri Yuriko, Yoshitoshi Tuki Hyakushi (Tokyo: Tokyodo Shuppan, 2010). Original resource extent: Polychrome wood block print. ![]() Title devised, in English, by Library staff. Completed in the year that he died, this series is highly regarded as the masterpiece of his later years. He created a wide range of works, including bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women), fuzoku-ga (pictures of manners and customs), and pictures of historical and literary characters. Tsukioka Yoshitoshi was an ukiyo-e artist from the school of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), active from the Bakumatsu (final years of the Shogunate) into the Meiji Period. Scholars believe that the order of the pictures in the album does not follow the order in which they were published, but instead their order in the indexes, although there are some variations. A preface that was written at the same time as the indexes were compiled is not included in the book. It is believed to have been bound by its former owner. The print is contained in a folding book consisting of all 100 prints from Tsuki hyakushi and two indexes that were created after the series was completed. They depict various aspects of the moon, drawing upon Japanese and Chinese anecdotes, historical events, and mythology, and relate to a wide range of subjects, including famous warriors, notable women, birds and animals, and goblins and ghosts. The prints were published in batches by Akiyama Buemon between 18. This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-92). One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Lunacy - Unrolling Letters.Perhaps sleeping lightly on moonlit nights was a defence mechanism against predators. ![]() What use an ingrained lunar calendar is (or once was) to a human being remains to be determined. But those species that have been studied are animals like marine iguanas, for whom knowing the tides is important. Lunar cycles exist in other species so this is not, as it were, a lunatic idea. Besides the well-known endogenous daily cycle which the experiment originally studied, there is also an endogenous monthly cycle entrained to the Moon (as the daily one is to the sun) by unconscious observation over a long period of the light from the heavenly bodies concerned. What he thinks he has discovered is an additional hand on the body’s clock-face. Lest any astrologer reading this result get cocky, Dr Cajochen does not believe that what he has found is directly influenced by the Moon through, say, some tidal effect. Nor was any of this connected, in female volunteers, with their menstrual cycles. It also took them five minutes longer to get to sleep, their delta activity (a measure of how deeply they were sleeping) was 30% lower than at other times, their level of melatonin, a sleep-related hormone, was reduced, and they reported, subjectively, that they had not slept as well as usual. Electroencephalography showed that the volunteers slept, on average, 20 minutes less around the time of the full Moon. ![]() And the answer was “yes”, the phase of the Moon does affect human sleep patterns, even when the human involved cannot possibly see the Moon. Neither the participants nor the organisers could possibly have been biased by knowing the experiment was intended to look at the effect of the full Moon, since at the time it was conducted it wasn’t.Ī few days’ number-crunching gave Dr Cajochen and his team what they were looking for. And it was also the ultimate in double-blind experiments. Volunteers were shut away from daylight (and therefore also from moonlight) for days at a time, so their sleep patterns could not be affected by the illumination a full Moon brings. Between 20 they had looked at the effect of the daily body clock on the sleep patterns of 33 volunteers. Those data came from a study on body clocks and sleep patterns they had conducted a decade earlier at the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Basel, where they work.
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