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July 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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● New moon · ○ Full moon. Moon-phase instants are shown in JST; your local time appears alongside them when available.

July 1, 2026 Wednesday

Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00) · Lunar date 5/17 · Hinoe–Rat 丙子

What kind of day is it?

Senbu: Traditionally favors a calm approach, with the afternoon considered more favorable.

Pause and review. Traditionally associated with restraint in promises, consultations, and agreements.

An invitation for today, written by this site: Take time to calmly check a plan or promise that has been on your mind.

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: Summer Solstice, since June 21, 2026.

Calendar annotations · 5

Other daily cycles

Twelve officers: Break — Traditionally associated with restraint in promises, consultations, and agreements.

Twenty-eight mansions: 箕 — Traditionally favors tailoring clothes and discourages mourning rites.

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

Nine-star cycle: Six White Metal · descending cycle. Not a personal birth-year reading.

Moon

Approximate moon age at noon JST: 16 days.

● Next New moon:

○ Next Full moon:

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.

  • Aizen Myōō

    Annual observance: 7/1–2

    Aizendō Shōman’in: observance services for the principal Aizen Myōō and the Aizen Festival, June 30–July 2, including a special opening.

    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
  • Ryūju 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.

  • Seiryū Gongen

    Day 17 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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Sources and checked dates · 109

Original source titles are retained in Japanese.