“72 Seasons – A year seen through the ancient Japanese calendar” is a no-frills, no-fuss program; it’s no productivity tool for you to record upcoming tasks or events. It simply presents a ...

Japan's traditional calendar system, known as '72 Kōsokudō' or 'Shichijūnni-ko,' divides the year into 72 micro-seasons, each lasting about five days. Rooted in ancient Chinese astronomy and ...

At Mirukashi Salon in Japan, Prairie Stuart-Wolff and Hanako Nakazato offer a model of hospitality and a way of living that ...

Until I came across the traditional Japanese ... calendar, this calendar was originally conceived to keep track of agricultural cycles, and is divided into 24 sekki, or micro seasons.

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Think again – at the time of writing, it was not just winter (meteorologically, that is), but the season of 'the earth becoming damp' (土脉潤起), one of Japan’s 72 micro-seasons.

But in the case of 72 Seasons, it becomes a wholeheartedly engaging–and nearly poetic–topic. The app uses the Japanese lunar calendar to subdivide the year into 72 microseasons ranging from ...

Flower Atlas engages with a traditional mode of Japanese time-telling—the Kō calendar—which is comprised of 72 annual seasons. The work sees 72 cloth banners suspended across the site’s ...

A budding plum blossom, photographed on Feb. 15 in Futtsu, in Chiba Prefecture, during one of the 72 microseasons that mark the traditional Japanese ... seasons are the foundation of every ...

Each banner represents a "micro season" of an ancient Japanese calendar "I was interested ... "I imagined a skygarden, based on the ancient 24 and 72 seasons calendars wherein coloured petals ...