今は亡き両親から 私の長女に 贈られた雛人形

　今日３月３日は耳の日です。一般的に、年齢を重ねると次第に耳が遠くなる傾向です。しかし、日頃から耳鼻科に行って診察を受け、耳垢を除去し、耳の中を清潔にしてもらってるので、私は今のところ聞こえ難いと感じません。音楽を聴くことが好きなので、耳の健康はいつまでも保ちたいです。

　一方、今日は「ひな祭り」です。本来ならば、平安時代からと考えられる「ひな祭り」の本当の日は、今年は４月２２日です。

　明治５年に太陽暦になってからも、従来からの３月３日をそのまま継承してるので昔の「ひな祭り」とは季節が異なってしまいました。このため、昔は「桃の節句」と言われたようですが、私の庭の花桃たちを観察しても、現在、未だ蕾さえ生じてません。

　ところで、同様に、太陰太陽暦(旧暦)から現行歴に日付がそのまま移行した不都合は「七夕」でも起こってます。現在の７月７日では、未だ、彦星も織姫星も頭上にはなく、東の水平線近くにあり、実際には梅雨の最中なので、毎年ほとんど見ることができません。

　因みに、天文学的に今年の「七夕」は８月２２日の夕方です。この日は旧暦で７月７日だからです。この日の夕刻には彦星と織姫星が一年に一度、出会うために乗る小舟の形になる「七日目の月」が西南の空に必ず出ます。「七夕」という文字を使うのは「月」の満ち欠けが「七」日目の「夕」方という意味です。

Dear my overseas friends who are interested in Japanese " Doll Festival"

　Today, March 3rd, is Ear Day. In general, people tend to lose their hearing as they age. However, I regularly go to an otolaryngologist to have my ears checked, remove earwax, and have my ears cleaned, so I don't feel like I have difficulty hearing. I like listening to music, so I want to keep my ears healthy.

　On the other hand, today is the Hinamatsuri." that means Doll festival in Japan. Originally, the real day of Hinamatsuri has been held since the Heian period, is April 22nd this year.

　After the solar calendar was adopted in 1873, the traditional date of March 3 has been inherited, so the season became different from the old "Hinamatsuri". For this reason, it used to be called the "Momo no Sekku" that means Doll festival was together with peach blossom ,but when I look at the peach blossoms in my garden, there are not even buds yet.

　By the way, the inconvenience of the shift from the luni-solar calendar (old calendar) to the current calendar also occurs in date of "Tanabata". In present-day of July 7th, neither Hikoboshi (Altair) nor Orihimebosh (Vega) are still overhead, they are near the eastern horizon, and actually it is in the middle of the rainy season in Japan, so we can hardly see them every year.

　Not change the subject, but astronomically, this year's "Tanabata" will be on the evening of August 22nd. This day is July 7th in the luni-solar calendar. In the evening of this day, the "Seventh Day Moon" will always appear in the southwestern sky in the shape of a small boat that Hikoboshi and Orihimeboshi board to meet once a year.

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