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		bgee on March 31, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Japan's cherry blossom 'earliest peak since record... > The Japanese calendar was lunar and calculated locally until the 1600s in some areas Isn't the Japanese calendar Lunisolar and borrowed from China? (from the wikipedia link you posted above)

prometheus76 on March 31, 2021 [–]

"After that, Japan calculated its calendar using various Chinese calendar procedures" also from the wikipedia article. This is all just illustrating my point further.

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