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

The Japanese cycle · branch 2

牛

Ox

牛 ushi · 丑 ushi

Animal and branch are related, not identical

animal牛 · ushi
earthly branch丑 · ushi
cycle position2 of 12
English variantsCattle · Cow

Five pairings inside sixty years

The five stems that can meet 丑 in one sixty-year round.
etoreadingphasepolarity
乙丑kinoto-no-ushiwoodyin
丁丑hinoto-no-ushifireyin
己丑tsuchinoto-no-ushiearthyin
辛丑kanoto-no-ushimetalyin
癸丑mizunoto-no-ushiwateryin

Modern supported years: 1877 · 1889 · 1901 · 1913 · 1925 · 1937 · 1949 · 1961 · 1973 · 1985 · 1997 · 2009 · 2021 · 2033 · 2045 · 2057 · 2069 · 2081 · 2093

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 →

Bodhastra documents what astrological traditions have said, and when they started saying it. It is presented as cultural history and entertainment. Nothing here is medical, psychological, financial or predictive advice, and nothing here is a claim about what will happen to you.

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