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-LRB- 6 -RRB- Present-day Nagano Prefecture . -LRB- 1 -RRB- On the present-day map , Tamba corresponds roughly to the central area of Kyoto Prefecture and part of Hyogo Prefecture . -LSB- 1 -RSB- The Hour of the Rat -LRB- Ne-no-Koku -RRB- , according to the old Japanese method of reckoning time , was the first hour . It corresponded to the time between our midnight and two o'clock in the morning ; for the ancient Japanese hours were each equal to two modern hours . -LSB- 2 -RSB- Kaimyo , the posthumous Buddhist name , or religious name , given to the dead . Strictly speaking , the meaning of the word is sila-name . -LRB- See my paper entitled , `` The Literature of the Dead '' in Exotics and Retrospectives . -RRB-