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

The Japanese cycle · branch 5

竜

Dragon

竜 ryū · 辰 tatsu

Animal and branch are related, not identical

animal竜 · ryū
earthly branch辰 · tatsu
cycle position5 of 12
English variantsnone in this source panel

Five pairings inside sixty years

The five stems that can meet 辰 in one sixty-year round.
etoreadingphasepolarity
戊辰tsuchinoe-tatsuearthyang
庚辰kanoe-tatsumetalyang
壬辰mizunoe-tatsuwateryang
甲辰kinoe-tatsuwoodyang
丙辰hinoe-tatsufireyang

Modern supported years: 1880 · 1892 · 1904 · 1916 · 1928 · 1940 · 1952 · 1964 · 1976 · 1988 · 2000 · 2012 · 2024 · 2036 · 2048 · 2060 · 2072 · 2084 · 2096

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 →

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