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September 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.

September 1, 2026 Tuesday

Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00) · Lunar date 7/20 · Tsuchinoe–Tiger 戊寅

What kind of day is it?

Tomobiki: Traditionally favored for celebrations. Avoiding funerals is a custom, not a universal Buddhist prohibition.

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.

Two-hundred-and-tenth Day · JST

Current solar term: End of Heat, since August 23, 2026.

Calendar annotations · 2

Other daily cycles

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

Twenty-eight mansions: 室 — Traditionally favors weddings and house building.

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

Nine-star cycle: Seven Red Metal · descending cycle. Not a personal birth-year reading.

Moon

Approximate moon age at noon JST: 19.4 days.

● Next New moon:

○ Next Full moon:

Observance days · 5

Lunar-date references · 1
Daily guardians · 2

All observances and their traditions · Back to the month

Sources and checked dates · 109

Original source titles are retained in Japanese.