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Some regions of Japan, including Okinawa Prefecture and the Amami Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, used to celebrate Lunar New Year on the first day of the lunar calendar (around the first day of spring, in February of the Gregorian calendar). [6] Nowadays, it is very rare to celebrate lunar new year as the new year is considered January 1.
Lunar New Year is the beginning of a new year based on lunar calendars or, informally but more widely, lunisolar calendars.Typically, both types of calendar begin with a new moon but, whilst a lunar calendar year has a fixed number (usually twelve) of lunar months, lunisolar calendars have a variable number of lunar months, resetting the count periodically to resynchronise with the solar year.
Japanese national holidays Date English name Official name Romanization; January 1: New Year's Day: 元日: Ganjitsu: Second Monday of January: Coming of Age Day: 成人の日: Seijin no hi: February 11: National Foundation Day † 建国記念の日: Kenkoku kinen no hi: February 23 The Emperor's Birthday: 天皇誕生日: Tennō tanjōbi ...
Setsubun has its origins in tsuina (), a Chinese custom introduced to Japan in the 8th century. [2] It was quite different from the Setsubun known today. According to the Japanese history book Shoku Nihongi, tsuina was first held in Japan in 706, and it was an event to ward off evil spirits held at the court on the last day of the year according to the lunar-solar calendar.
Name Date Remarks Ref. New Year's Day (元日, Ganjitsu): January 1 This national holiday was established in 1948, as a day to celebrate the new year. New Year's Day marks the beginning of Japan's most important holiday season, the New Year season (正月, Shōgatsu), which generally refers to the first one, three or seven days of the year.
Tsukimi or Otsukimi (お月見), meaning, "moon-viewing", are Japanese festivals honoring the autumn moon, a variant of the Mid-Autumn Festival.The celebration of the full moon typically takes place on the 15th day of the eighth month of the traditional Japanese calendar, known as Jūgoya (十五夜, fifteenth night); [1] the waxing moon is celebrated on the 13th day of the ninth month, known ...
The last day in the 12th lunar month is called ōmisoka (大晦日) —with the 大 indicating it is the final last day of the month for that year—or the "great thirtieth day". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As part of the Meiji Restoration , Japan switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1873, and ōmisoka was set as December 31, or New Year's Eve . [ 3 ]
According to legend, the Milky Way separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar. The date of Tanabata varies by region of the country, but the first festivities begin on 7 July of the Gregorian calendar. The celebration is held at various days ...