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The Tenpō calendar's assume of fixed month either two or three full lunar months will always occur between such months, containing Solstice and equinoxes. When there are three, that there will be one month without a
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to be designated as the leap month. It does not clearly define how to treat the case where there is only one full interceding lunar month, nor when such a period contains more than one month not containing any
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Unlike previous calendars with uniform hours lengths, the Tenpō calendars hour vary seasonally, posing the length of hours changed depending on the time of year. This made it extremely challenging to make
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when necessary- specifically when three lunar months occurs between those including a solstice/equinox. the leap month lacks any
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dictates the time used for determining solar terms and lunar phases.
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Highlighting the History of Astronomy in the Asia-Pacific Region,
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era (1830–1844) it remained in use throughout the late
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by solar longitude instead of time, unlike the previous
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The Tenpō calendar is no longer officially maintained.
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The Tenpō calendar is a lunisolar system which adopted
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The Lunisolar Calendar: A Sociology of Japanese Time
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Index

lunisolar calendar
Tenpō
Edo period
Shibukawa Kagesuke
ja
Teiki-hō method
solar terms
Heiki-hō method
leap month
chūki 中気
Kyoto
Japanese mechanical clocks
Year 2033 Problem
ja
Japanese calendar
Sexagenary cycle
Tenpō
Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric
"Calendar"


Highlighting the History of Astronomy in the Asia-Pacific Region, p. 155
"暦Wiki/太陰太陽暦/定気法の影響 - 国立天文台暦計算室"
"暦Wiki/時刻/日本の本初子午線 - 国立天文台暦計算室"
National Diet Library
"The Japanese Calendar"
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Japanese calendar

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