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

The Japanese cycle · branch 7

馬

Horse

馬 uma · 午 uma


Animal and branch are related, not identical

animal馬 · uma
earthly branch午 · uma
cycle position7 of 12
English variantsnone in this source panel

Five pairings inside sixty years

The five stems that can meet 午 in one sixty-year round.
etoreadingphasepolarity
庚午kanoe-umametalyang
壬午mizunoe-umawateryang
甲午kinoe-umawoodyang
丙午hinoe-umafireyang
戊午tsuchinoe-umaearthyang

Modern supported years: 1882 · 1894 · 1906 · 1918 · 1930 · 1942 · 1954 · 1966 · 1978 · 1990 · 2002 · 2014 · 2026 · 2038 · 2050 · 2062 · 2074 · 2086 · 2098


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 →