{"id":2734,"date":"2010-01-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2021-12-03T15:24:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T18:24:29","slug":"japanese-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/en\/calendario-japones\/","title":{"rendered":"the japanese calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"604ea9ec9f03ce20cb5fee53cf49f850\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-0652292147574552\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Ads responsivo Inicio Post CAJap -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0652292147574552\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3298668993\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>O&nbsp;<strong>japanese calendar<\/strong>, in its original form, does not count years like our Gregorian calendar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"175\" height=\"135\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/calendario-japones-1.gif?resize=175%2C135&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"japanese calendar\" class=\"wp-image-2738\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The traditional Japanese calendar is based on eras, where counting is restarted whenever one era ends and another starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These days, the most used calendar in Japan is the <a href=\"https:\/\/brasil.elpais.com\/brasil\/2016\/10\/04\/actualidad\/1475532151_621324.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gregorian calendar<\/a>, which counts the days, months and years in the same way we do in Brazil and many western countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite this, many public registries and registries still use the traditional calendar, forcing people to know and use both the traditional Japanese calendar and the Gregorian calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"222\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/calendario-japones-do-windows.jpg?resize=240%2C222&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"japanese windows calendar\" class=\"wp-image-2735\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The traditional Japanese calendar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Contrary to what we are used to, the traditional Japanese calendar does not count the years like ours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It counts years based on time periods marked by major events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past, this event could have been anything landmark, like the birth of someone important to Japan, a revolution in the economy, the death of someone famous. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact is, when an era begins, the counting of years begins again and goes on counting the years until a new era appears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over time, these \u201ceras\u201d of the Japanese calendar came to mark only the beginning and end of the reign of each Japanese emperor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when an emperor takes the throne a new age begins, and when he dies the current age ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to this form of calendar, the year 2010 corresponds to the 21st year of the era.&nbsp;<acronym title=\"heisei\">\u5e73\u6210<\/acronym>, since it has been 21 years since Emperor Akihito assumed the Japanese throne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In case you&#039;re curious, below is a list of the <a href=\"https:\/\/pt.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eras_do_Jap%C3%A3o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more recent eras<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><th>eras<\/th><th>name of eras<\/th><th>Time course<\/th><th>Emperor<\/th><\/tr><tr><td>\u660e\u6cbb<\/td><td>Was <strong>Meiji<\/strong><\/td><td>1868 to 1912<\/td><td>Emperor Mutsuhito<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\u5927\u6b63<\/td><td>Was <strong>Taishou<\/strong><\/td><td>1912 to 1926<\/td><td>Emperor Yoshihito<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\u662d\u548c<\/td><td>Was <strong>shouwa<\/strong><\/td><td>1926 to 1989<\/td><td>Emperor Hirohito<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\u5e73\u6210<\/td><td>Was <strong>heisei<\/strong><\/td><td>1989 to 2019<\/td><td>Emperor Akihito<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\u4ee4\u548c<\/td><td>Was <strong>Reiwa<\/strong><\/td><td>2019 - present<\/td><td>Emperor Reiwa<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We say that whoever is born within an era of the Japanese calendar is born in the year of that era. For example, I was born in the year 55 of the Shouwa era, ie 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And the Western calendar?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of Western influence, the Japanese began to use the Gregorian counting system along with many of the Japanese symbols used to represent the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/en\/weekdays-in-japanese\/\">days of the week in japanese<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/en\/months-of-the-year-in-japanese\/\">the months of the year in japanese<\/a>&nbsp;it&#039;s the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/en\/how-to-write-the-year-in-japanese\/\">year in japanese<\/a>&nbsp;itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly enough, numbers on Japanese calendars are often written with Indo-Arabic symbols (the same numbers we use) instead of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/en\/japanese-numbers-from-1-to-20\/\">numbers in japanese<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of this mix of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/en\/the-jouyou-kanji-japanese-symbols\/\">japanese symbols<\/a>, Indo-Arabic numbers and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/en\/accountants-to-count-in-japanese\/\">japanese accountants<\/a>, a mixture of the Japanese calendar with the Gregorian calendar was created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, this&nbsp;<em>japanese-gregorian calendar<\/em>&nbsp;it was the calendar adopted by the Japanese in their day-to-day, however public bodies and official documents only accept dates written according to the traditional calendar, forcing the coexistence between the two counting systems.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese calendar, in its original form, does not count the years like our Gregorian calendar. 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