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Eto and junishi in Japan: native readings, regional animals and a civil calendar remade in 1873.

The Japanese cycle · branch 12

猪

Boar

猪 inoshishi · 亥 i


Animal and branch are related, not identical

animal猪 · inoshishi
earthly branch亥 · i
cycle position12 of 12
English variantsWild boar

Translation matters here

Japanese inoshishi is wild boar; Pig is the usual Chinese English label, not the Japanese substitution.


Five pairings inside sixty years

The five stems that can meet 亥 in one sixty-year round.
etoreadingphasepolarity
乙亥kinoto-no-iwoodyin
丁亥hinoto-no-ifireyin
己亥tsuchinoto-no-iearthyin
辛亥kanoto-no-imetalyin
癸亥mizunoto-no-iwateryin

Modern supported years: 1875 · 1887 · 1899 · 1911 · 1923 · 1935 · 1947 · 1959 · 1971 · 1983 · 1995 · 2007 · 2019 · 2031 · 2043 · 2055 · 2067 · 2079 · 2091


What this page does not infer

A branch can name a year, month, day, double hour or direction. Its animal does not, by itself, establish a personality or a compatibility verdict. Those claims remain outside this structural corpus.


Sources

National Diet Library, Kanshi: the sixty combinations. Observatory and library controls verify the native readings and animal correspondence. See the complete Japanese panel →