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Microseason Number Traditional Dates Japanese Name Romanization English Meaning Risshun (立春) (Beginning of Spring) 1: February 4–8: 東風解凍: Harukaze kōri o toku: The east wind melts the thick ice. 2: February 9–13: 黄鶯睍睆: Kōō kenkan su: Bush warblers sing in the countryside. 3: February 14–18: 魚上氷: Uo kōri o izuru
Japan is generally a rainy country with high humidity. [1] Because of its wide range of latitude, [1] seasonal winds and different types of ocean currents, [citation needed] Japan has a variety of climates, with a latitude range of the inhabited islands from 24°N – 46°N, which is comparable to the range between Nova Scotia and The Bahamas in the east coast of North America. [1]
The sense of season in kigo is based on the region between Kyoto and Tokyo, because Japanese classical literature developed mainly in this area. [10] In the Japanese calendar, seasons traditionally followed the lunisolar calendar with the solstices and equinoxes at the middle of a season. The traditional Japanese seasons are: Spring: 4 February ...
The other 14,120 islands are classified as "remote islands" by the Japanese government. [9] [11] The Ryukyu Islands and Nanpō Islands are south and east of the main islands. The territory covers 377,973.89 km 2 (145,936.53 sq mi). [2] It is the fourth-largest island country in the world and the largest island country in East Asia. [12]
Two separate foliot balances allow this 18th-century Japanese clock to run at two different speeds to indicate unequal hours.. A Japanese clock (和時計, wadokei) is a mechanical clock that has been made to tell traditional Japanese time, a system in which daytime and nighttime are always divided into six periods whose lengths consequently change with the season.
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Wakaba mark Shoshinsha mark displayed on a Suzuki Alto Lapin. The shoshinsha mark (初心者マーク) or Wakaba mark (若葉マーク), officially Beginner Drivers' Sign (初心運転者標識, Shoshin Untensha Hyōshiki), is a green and yellow V-shaped symbol that beginner drivers in Japan must display at the designated places at the front and the rear of their cars for one year after they ...
This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart. Billboard Japan began ranking the Japanese music market on the week ending January 21, 2008. [1] AKB48 hold the record for the most number-ones songs with 44.