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

The Japanese cycle · branch 8

羊

Sheep

羊 hitsuji · 未 hitsuji

Animal and branch are related, not identical

animal羊 · hitsuji
earthly branch未 · hitsuji
cycle position8 of 12
English variantsnone in this source panel

Translation matters here

Japanese hitsuji is conventionally sheep; translating this branch as Goat imports a different regional label.

Five pairings inside sixty years

The five stems that can meet 未 in one sixty-year round.
etoreadingphasepolarity
辛未kanoto-no-hitsujimetalyin
癸未mizunoto-no-hitsujiwateryin
乙未kinoto-no-hitsujiwoodyin
丁未hinoto-no-hitsujifireyin
己未tsuchinoto-no-hitsujiearthyin

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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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