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June 2026 — Japanese calendar

Explore Japanese calendar traditions, observance days and shrine events. Dates and traditional hours are shown in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

Supported dates: 1 January 2026–31 December 2027. Calendar beliefs differ across regions and traditions. This is not a prediction, a guarantee, or a complete schedule for every shrine and temple. Check the institution’s current announcement before attending.

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June 1, 2026 Monday

Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00) · Lunar date 4/16 · Hinoe–Horse 丙午

What kind of day is it?

Senshō: Traditionally favors the morning over the afternoon.

Lighten your surroundings. Traditionally a day to remove harmful things, especially favorable for discarding what is unnecessary.

An invitation for today, written by this site: Make a little time to tidy one small area, such as part of your desk.

These are historical calendar traditions, not predictions or measures of a person’s luck. They do not determine medical decisions, a funeral’s permissibility, or the outcome of an event.

Current solar term: Lesser Fullness, since May 21, 2026.

Calendar annotations · 5

Other daily cycles

Twelve officers: Remove — Traditionally a day to remove harmful things, especially favorable for discarding what is unnecessary.

Twenty-eight mansions: 心 — Traditionally favors honoring kami and buddhas and discourages weddings.

Twenty-seven mansions: 尾. This is a separate cycle; the twenty-eight-mansion interpretation above is not applied to it.

Nine-star cycle: One White Water · ascending cycle. Not a personal birth-year reading.

Moon

Approximate moon age at noon JST: 15.3 days.

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Observance days · 5

  • Jōkōbutsu

    Day 1 of each civil month — Thirty-day Buddha assignment

    At home, pray at a time that suits you. No common required hour is confirmed in the cited material.

    Sources and checked dates · 1

    Original source titles are retained in Japanese.

  • Myōken Bosatsu

    Day 1 of each civil month

    A monthly observance in the calendar table published by Tobifudō Shōbōin.

    At home, pray at a time that suits you. No common required hour is confirmed in the cited material.

    Sources and checked dates · 1

    Original source titles are retained in Japanese.

  • Shōten-sama

    Day 1 of each civil month

    An observance described by Suō Kokubunji.

    At home, pray at a time that suits you. No common required hour is confirmed in the cited material.

    Sources and checked dates · 1

    Original source titles are retained in Japanese.

  • Kurikara Fudō

    Day 1 of each civil month

    Kurikara Fudōji: the principal Kurikara Fudō Myōō’s observance on the first of every month.

    At home, pray at a time that suits you. No common required hour is confirmed in the cited material.

    Sources and checked dates · 1

    Original source titles are retained in Japanese.

  • Uka no Mitama no Ōkami

    Horse day (every 12 days)

    Inari Myōjin’s Horse-day observance in Tobifudō Shōbōin’s table. The linked introduction concerns Ukanomitama.

    At home, pray at a time that suits you. No common required hour is confirmed in the cited material.

    Sources and checked dates · 1

    Original source titles are retained in Japanese.

Lunar-date references · 2

  • Darani Bosatsu

    Day 1 of each lunar month — Thirty-day Buddha assignment

    Lunar-date reference only; this is not confirmation of an institution’s festival schedule.

    Sources and checked dates · 1

    Original source titles are retained in Japanese.

  • Enma Ō

    Day 16 of each lunar month

    A monthly observance in the calendar table published by Tobifudō Shōbōin.

    Lunar-date reference only; this is not confirmation of an institution’s festival schedule.

    Sources and checked dates · 1

    Original source titles are retained in Japanese.

Daily guardians · 2

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Original source titles are retained in Japanese.