十一月
November
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- 十一月は七五三だ。November holds shichigosan.
- 十一月二十三日は勤労感謝の日。November 23 is Labor Thanksgiving Day.
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Juuichigatsu (十一月) is November — home to shichigosan (the 7-5-3 child blessing), Culture Day, and Labor Thanksgiving. Cluster: (1) shichigosan (Nov 15, blessings for girls aged 3, boys aged 5, and girls aged 7 at the shrine — wearing kimono, receiving chitose-ame "thousand-year candy" thin long sticks symbolizing longevity, commemorative photos; Edo origin, nationalized post-Meiji); (2) bunka no hi (Culture Day, Nov 3, set in 1948 on the former Emperor Meiji birthday — recognizing art, music, scholarship, awarding the bunka kunshou Order of Culture, with free admission to museums nationwide); (3) kinrou kansha no hi (Labor Thanksgiving Day, Nov 23, set in 1948, originating from niinamesai harvest ritual — gratitude for labor; the kanji "kinrou" is a stiff translation of the actual harvest-thanks substance); (4) shichigosan-mairi (chitose-ame plus full kimono shrine-visit imagery dominates November SNS). Kanji 十一 = 10+1, on-reading juuichi (only juuichi-gatsu for the month name; normal ordinals juuichi compound "tens + units"). JLPT N5 plus Novembers Japanese child-rite and culture cluster.
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