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Japan's 72 Micro-Seasons: Nature's Hidden Calendar
Discover Japan's 72 kō, a poetic calendar dividing the year into five-day micro-seasons that shaped Japanese culture, food, and art for centuries.
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72 micro-seasons
What is 72 micro-seasons?
Japanese poetic division of the year into seventy-two periods of about five days each.
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