ephemeris

Japanese: ephemeris
ephemeris

…Motoori Norinaga, in his “True Calendar,” states a different theory: “When we say “Kihe,” we mean the passage of years, months, and days…The name “Kihe” comes from the fact that the sutras are read one after another, day by day.” When we consider the meaning of the calendar, we can see that the word “almanac” is used interchangeably to mean two different things: a calendar as a standard for recording days, and an ephemeris as a prophecy of celestial phenomena. The so-called calendars commonly used today are used to record days, and there is a separate astronomical ephemeris used by experts to describe celestial phenomena. …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…本居宣長は《真暦考》で〈さて来経(きへ)といへば,すなはち年月日の経ゆくこと,……,暦をこよみとつけたるも来経読(けよみ)にて一日一日とつぎつぎに来経るを数へゆく由の名なり〉と別説をとなえている。ここで暦の意味を考えると,暦(アルマナックalmanac)は,日を記述するための基準としての暦(カレンダーcalendar)と,天象の予言書としての暦(エフェメリスephemeris)という異なった二つの目的をもつものが混同されていっしょに用いられていることがわかる。現在ふつうに使われている,いわゆるカレンダーは日を記述するためのものであり,天象については専門家の用いる天体暦が別に存在する。…

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