Word of the day: “micro-season” - in the classical Japanese calendar the year is divided into 72 five-day micro-seasons or kō….

Word of the day: “micro-season” - in the classical Japanese calendar the year is divided into 72 five-day micro-seasons or kō. Thus 6–10 March is 蟄虫啓戸, meaning “Hibernating insects surface”; 11–15 March is 桃始笑, “First peach blossoms”.
Precise, poetic, attentive phenology. pic.twitter.com/nkAnie7Ty9

— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) March 11, 2019

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