分 in a literal pictographic sense is a sword in eight, a reference to the Kojiki, the swordsman slaying the eight-headed chaos dragon. This deeply spiritual reference encodes the concepts of both time and understanding to the Japanese. One thus assumes the Kojiki itself does too
The reversal of 8 and 11, strength and justice, universalism and non-universalism has thus always bothered me. In my second game concept I had Peter the chaos magick dragon, but also there were 8 main dragon philosophers. I have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm babbling, sorry