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Happy (Lunar) New Year

Happy (Lunar) New Year

The Year of the dragon as inked by Yuri Shimojo

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Ryuho, 1669 from Japanese Death Poems, 1986

Happy New Year. Lunar new year, or lunisolar new year. January first was proclaimed the beginning of the year by some medieval pope in order to sync Easter up more mathematically with the seasons and then gradually, sometimes begrudgingly, adopted around the world as the standard calendar for doing business. T…

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