Name of months in your language

vienna · 11-17-17, 04:14 PM

I once made an effort to learn some Japanese language and found the months are named merely as a numerical order, with an ordinal number followed by the Japanese character for "moon", so it was Jan = Ichigatsu (1st Moon), Feb = "Nigatsu" (2nd Moon), etc. Later, I found out there were older, traditional names for the months used before the 'modernization' of the calendar:

(From Wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_calendar#Months

There are some poetically evocative images in those old names...

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11-17-17, 04:14 PM	#9
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,724 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	I once made an effort to learn some Japanese language and found the months are named merely as a numerical order, with an ordinal number followed by the Japanese character for "moon", so it was Jan = Ichigatsu (1st Moon), Feb = "Nigatsu" (2nd Moon), etc. Later, I found out there were older, traditional names for the months used before the 'modernization' of the calendar: (From Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_calendar#Months There are some poetically evocative images in those old names... <O> __________________ __________________________________________________ __

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