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Animals (動物 dōbutsu) Plants (植物 shokubutsu) This is a list of both Japanese and non-Japanese kigo. If the kigo is a Japanese word, or if there is a Japanese translation in parentheses next to the English kigo, then the kigo can be found in most major Japanese saijiki.
2 February 2011: Metal Tiger 1 February 2022: 21 January 2023: Water Tiger 19 February 2034: 7 February 2035: Wood Tiger 6 February 2046: 25 January 2047: Fire Tiger 24 January 2058: 11 February 2059: Earth Tiger 11 February 2070: 30 January 2071: Metal Tiger 29 January 2082: 16 February 2083: Water Tiger 15 February 2094: 04 February 2095 ...
The snake is the sixth of the twelve-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Snake is associated with the Earthly Branch symbol 巳. [1] According to one legend, there is a reason for the order of the animals in the cycle. A race was held to cross a great river, and the order of ...
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Timothy Iles writing for the Electronic Journal for Contemporary Japanese Studies called Azuma's databases "an extremely useful model with which to comprehend postmodernity" and complemented the text of the translation and choice not to 'over-translate'. [7] In 2011, Mark McHarry wrote about Japan's Database Animals for the journal ...
The system of the twelve-year cycle of animal signs was built from observations of the orbit of Jupiter (the Year Star; simplified Chinese: 岁星; traditional Chinese: 歳星; pinyin: Suìxīng). Following the orbit of Jupiter around the Sun, Chinese astronomers divided the celestial circle into 12 sections, and rounded it to 12 years (from 11 ...
The first year of the first Drukchu kor cycle started in 1024. The cycles were counted by ordinal numbers, but the years within the cycles were never counted but referred to by special names. The structure of the drukchu kor was as follows: Each year is associated with an animal and an element, similar to the Chinese zodiac. [6]
' State Shinto ') – Japanese translation of the English term State Shinto created in 1945 by the US occupation forces to define the post-Meiji religious system in Japan. Kokoro (心, lit. ' heart ') – The essence of a thing or being. Kokugakuin Daigaku (國學院大學) – Tokyo university that is one of two authorized to train Shinto priests.