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Nengajoo 年賀状 New Year Cards 2015
hitsuji 羊 Year of the Ram / Sheep
he 2015 Chinese Year is the 32 number in the sixty-year cycle called YI WEI and described in Chinese tradition like "Ram respected by Others". 2015 is the year of Green Wooden Ram (Sheep, Goat).
The upcoming 2015 year of the Ram is the inspiring period; it will try to leave behind any unstable affair and connections with the aim to carve a new more honest pattern of relations.
- source : www.gotohoroscope.com
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from the shrine Go-Oo Jinja 護王神社 Go-O Jinja
Kyoto 上京区烏丸通下長者町下ル桜鶴円町385
from the shrine Matsuo Taisha 松尾大社
Kyoto
from the shrine Shimogamo jinja 下賀茂神社
Kyoto
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sheep kokeshi こけし
source : (bing/ pinterest)
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a warm cap for the Year of the Sheep
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Year of the Ram - Kuramae Hachiman Shrine
Yajima Gogaku
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Takeuchi Seiho - 12 Signs of the Zodiac
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. Daruma Nengajo of previous years
Since 2005 !
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David Bradley on Chinese calendar animals.
(https://www.academia.edu/14635899/Chinese_calendar_animals_in_%E5%B1%B1%E6%B5%B7%E7%BB%8F_Shanhaijing_and_in_Sino-Tibetan_languages).
Here are two excerpts pertinent to our subject:
"The goat was a local wild animal before its domestication, but the sheep (Ovis aries) was introduced from the Middle East fairly early, probably about the same time as the domestication of the goat. In China it was initially linguistically classified together with the goat; among speakers of TB languages there are different one-syllable words reconstructible for goat and sheep, so presumably the local domestication of these two animals was after the time of the separation of the Chinese and the TB groups, reaching the TB groups first, which makes geographical sense as they were further west.
This may also date the separation of Chinese and TB prior to 4.5K BP. As we will see below, the Chinese word for both goat and sheep is cognate with the reconstructed TB form for sheep, while the TB languages have a separate word for the goat." (2-3)
"The PTB form for sheep appears to be cognate with the Chinese form for goat, but there are additional separate PTB forms for goat." (P.6)
Bradley also mentions that the goat was domesticated in China more than 4.400 years ago, while the sheep was roughly introduced at that time. If I remember the gist of the previous discussion on this list correctly, this is quite some time before the formation of the calendary cycle, and since the monosyllabic word was the same for both animals, the conclusion would be that the animal in question is "a woolly domestic animal like a goat or sheep".
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NSK entry concerning a tribute from Baekje in the 7th year of Suiko's reign:
秋九月癸亥朔、百濟貢駱駝一匹・驢一匹・羊二頭・白雉一隻。
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https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pmjs/oKvHYDBlVVo
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