NAMES OF THE MONTHS

First month; Social month; Spring-birth month.

Second month; Clothes-again-doubled month; Little-grass-growing month.

Third month; Ever-growing month; Flowery month; Dreaming month.

Fourth month; Deutzia month; First Summer month.

Fifth month; Rice-sprout month; Tachibana month.

Sixth month; Watery month (rice-fields filled with water).

Seventh month; Rice-ear month; Literary month (people composed poems on

the star festival).

Eighth month; Rice-ear-swelling month; Mid-autumn.

Ninth month; Chrysanthemum month; Long-night month.

Tenth month; Gods-absent month; Thunderless month; Little Spring.

Eleventh month; Frost month.

Twelfth month; Last month; Spring-waiting month.

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