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There is a superstition that "a woman born in the year of the fire horse has a strong temperament and shortens her husband's life". It is said that the superstition in the early Edo period that "there are many fires in the year of the fire horse", changed to a superstition about women's marriage
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Since there were fewer children born in 1966, it was often discussed at the time whether it was easier to take high school and college entrance examinations in this school year (the population including early-borns in 1967 was about 1.6 million) than in other years, but there was no significant
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Around 1924, when women born in 1906 were of marriageable age, there was a series of stories denying the superstition and reports of suicides of women whose marriage proposals were broken off, suggesting that the superstition of fire horse births affected women's marriages. In his novel
1428:), led by the village mayor, who declared it a "village of banishment of superstition". The village office conducted a survey of 1,400 women born in 1906 and the years before and after, and worked to publicize the fact that fire horse superstitions have no basis. The city of
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difference in the general college entrance rate. While no such increase was seen, the rate of entry into public universities increased in 1985. Additionally, in 1985 the first child rate was 50.9%, the highest ever in statistical history.
1389:, and left a story in his writings about how he was told by relatives that it was "lucky he was born a man". Sakaguchi predicted that this superstition would not go away, which would turn out to be the case in 1966.
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strongly rejected fire horse beliefs in its public relations paper, calling it "a fairy tale from once upon a time", "a truly strange custom most unbecoming of a scientific Japan, which last year produced its
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An example from the press "Girls turning 19 this year, troubled by superstitions; caught up in the distantly related 'fire horse' superstition", Asahi
Shimbun, February 10, 1924 Morning Edition (in Japanese).
1335:, and in 1906 the number of births decreased by about 4% from the previous year. In some cases, the births of boys were reported to have been shifted to the year before or after they were actually born.
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On the other hand, Japanese local governments took the following actions against fire horse superstitions: In
November 1965, the Yamagata District Legal Affairs Bureau of the
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Statistics also reported a high number of abortions. "Abortion in Japan is
Unusually High," Asahi Shimbun, August 22, 1966, Evening Edition (in Japanese).
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Kaku, Kanae (April 1975). "Increased induced abortion rate in 1966, an aspect of a
Japanese folk superstition".
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1632:竹野 静男「西鶴-海音の遺産 八百屋お七物の展開」『日本文学』vol.32、日本文学協会編集刊行、1983年、p.11
1641:高橋眞一「明治大正期における地域人口の自然増加と移動の関連性」『國民經濟雜誌』187巻4号、神戸大学、2003年。
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1623:サライ責任編集『十代目桂文治』昭和の名人完結編、小学館、2011年、pp.11-12および付属CD「八百屋お七」
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was believed to have been born during the fire horse.
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In the Edo period, all human ages were counted using
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1614:井原西鶴 原著、吉行淳之介 現代語訳『好色五人女』河出書房新社、1979年、pp.66-86
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1542:"［どらく］ - 朝日新聞がビートルズ世代に贈る、こだわりエンターテインメントサイト"
27:Forty-third element of the sexagenary cycle
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1763:「暮らしのしおり」 久留米市役所『市政くるめ』第188号 1966年1月5日
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1591:"2007年│過去の展示一覧│江戸東京たてもの園"
1571:www.tfd.metro.tokyo.lg.jp
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1567:"東京消防庁＜消防マメ知識＞＜消防雑学事典＞"
1508:Annals of Human Biology
1241:, she is 16 years old.
1839:Superstitions of Japan
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1321:Kinsei Kōto Chobunshū
1299:Kinsei Kōto Chobunshū
1261:Junshoku Edo Murasaki
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1778:blogs.worldbank.org
1424:(now Kasukawa-cho,
1410:Ministry of Justice
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1487:The New York Times
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