Lunisolar calendar

A Solar year is the time that the planet Earth takes to make one complete circle around the sun . That is around 365 days, while a lunar year, or 12 full patterns ( Shukla paksha or Bright ha…

Although the Gregorian calendar is in common and legal use in most countries, tr…throughout the Old World to determine religious festivals and national holidays.

Lunisolar Calendar It’s been awhile, but I remember playing my music on one of these cassettes as a very young girl. Nowadays, you can’t even find these ribbon cassettes anymore.&…

❄ Winter Solstice Blessings community. Today marks the 22nd seasonal point of the lunisolar calendar called Dong Zhi 冬 至 in / dongji 동지 in South Korea.Our focus for the next two weeks is to stay warm, rest more, and support our Kidney energy. It’s a time for embracing the darkness and spending time inside. #winter #solstice #cyclical

The era used for the calendar since the Middle Ages is Anno Mundi (from the creation of the

Sure the Romans had the Julian calendar, but the Celts had what is known as a Coligny calendar. It was found in Coligny, France (hence the name) back in 1897. Apart from looking awesome, the calendar...

I had the pleasure to create this year’s visuals for a Japanese festival TANABATA in Prague! 🎋 Tanabata celebrates the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi. 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. In present-day Japan, people generally celebrate this day by writing wishes, sometimes in the form of poetry, on tanzaku (短冊, tanzaku), small pieces of…

ESCAPE INTO EDO Autumn/Winter 2024 Introducing my latest collection of luxury scarves, Escape into Edo. This collection visually references the arts and culture of Edo period Japan (1615-1868). One of the key influences for these works was Ukiyo-e, a genre of richly detailed woodblock prints. The story is set during Tango No Sekku (Boy’s Day festival), which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunisolar calendar, a celebration reaching far back to the feudal days of old…