Rissun - Early Spring
Rissun - Early Spring is held on February 4. Risshun - リッスン - New Year in Japan. This event in the first decade of the month February is annual. Help us
Since 1873, Japan has followed the same months as the Gregorian calendar, so January 1st is the official New Year's Day for Japan.
Traditional East Asian lunisolar calendars divide a year into 24 solar terms. Lìchūn, Risshun, Ipchun, or Lập xuân is the 1st solar term. It begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude of 315° and ends when it reaches the longitude of 330°. It more often refers in particular to the day when the Sun is exactly at the celestial longitude of 315°. In the Gregorian calendar, it usually begins around February 4 and ends around February 18.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Korean New Year on January 30 (is based on the Chinese lunisolar calendar. Date of 2025);
Traditional Day of Offerings in Bhutan on January 30 (celebrated on the first day of the twelfth month of the Bhutanese calendar. In eastern Bhutan, the first day of the 12th Bhutanese month is celebrated as a New Year);
Tsagaan Sar or Mongolian Lunar New Year on January 30 (Celebrated on the first day of the lunar-solar calendar);
Tu Bishvat on February 12 (the fifteenth day of Shevat. The New Year for trees or ט"וּ בִּשְׁבָט);
Little New Year in Japan on February 13 (小正月 koshōgatsu);