tenth lunar month

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The Tenth Lunar Month　十月 juugatsu - 神無月 kannazuki -
lit. "Gods are absent"

In the old lunar calendar of the Edo period

spring lasted from the first month to the third,
summer from the fourth month through the sixth,
autumn from the seventh month through the ninth,
winter from the tenth month through the twelfth.

. WKD : The Asian Lunar Calendar and the Saijiki .


. Edo Saijiki　江戸歳時記 .


source :　art.jcc-okinawa.net/okinawa/edonosiki


The tenth lunar month (now November), after the harvest when the Japanese gods had done their duty, they left their local shrines for a bit of a vacation. They would all go for an audience and to celebrate at the great shrine of Izumo, so the rest of Japan was "without gods".

. kami no rusu 神の留守 the gods are absent .

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Yaburu, 破 Ebisu-ko Festival in Kanna-zuki

- Utagawa Toyokuni III
With a small picture in the frame that illustrates the table set for Ebisu-ko Festival when merchants in Edo invites their important clients and relatives on the twentieth day of the tenth month to pray for business success, this is a piece that depicts a woman drinking sake in front of a torn letter.
The tenth month of the lunar calendar was the month of 'Kanna-zuki', the month where all the gods left to gather in Izumo and during this month there was a deity who stayed in Edo to take charge. This was Ebisu.
Ebisu is the god who brings in business prosperity and on the day of the Ebisu festival, traders would shut up shop early and offer sea breams, sacred sake, mochi (rice cake) and fruits to Ebisu and Daikoku and hold a big feast.
So what does the girl in the picture represent? The title of this illustration is 'Yaburu' (to rip).
Yaburu is one of the 12 words used to mark the old calendar as indicators of lucky and unlucky activities and it would be considered very unlucky to make contracts, hold negotiations and seek advice on such a day and even more unlucky to hold a marriage ceremony.
The writing on the screen says that the girl made a promise with someone to meet on this day, but a letter was sent back saying that a meeting would not be possible and so the girl is drowning her sorrows in alcohol.
Left behind like Ebisu, the miserable figure of the girl is depicted.
- source : Tokyo Metropolitan Museum -

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bettara ichi market and Ebisu
　べったら市は、毎年10月19・20日の両日、日本橋大伝馬町の宝田恵比寿神社の大祭・恵比寿講に合わせて催される縁日

- source : 江戸の歳時記 -


. robiraki 炉開き "opening the hearth .
for the tea ceremony
On the first day of the boar in the month.



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. Edo Saijiki　江戸歳時記 .


. - Doing Business in Edo - 商売　- Introduction .

. senryu, senryū 川柳　Senryu poems in Edo .


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