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November 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.

November 1, 2026 Sunday

Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00) · Lunar date 9/22 · Tsuchinoto–Rabbit 己卯

What kind of day is it?

Shakkō: Traditionally cautious, with midday considered more favorable.

Care for what is already here. Traditionally favorable for obtaining things, such as harvesting crops and purchasing goods.

An invitation for today, written by this site: Tend a tool you want to keep using, or reflect on something you have continued.

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: Frost’s Descent, since October 23, 2026.

Calendar annotations · 6

Other daily cycles

Twelve officers: Hold — Traditionally favorable for obtaining things, such as harvesting crops and purchasing goods.

Twenty-eight mansions: 昴 — Traditionally favors prayers to kami and buddhas.

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

Nine-star cycle: Nine Purple Fire · descending cycle. Not a personal birth-year reading.

Moon

Approximate moon age at noon JST: 21.5 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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Original source titles are retained in Japanese.

  • Suminoe no Mimae no Ōkami

    First Rabbit day of each month

    Sumiyoshi Taisha: U no Hi Sai on the first Rabbit day of every month.

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

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    Original source titles are retained in Japanese.

Lunar-date references · 1
Daily guardians · 2

All observances and their traditions · Back to the month

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Original source titles are retained in Japanese.