Micro-seasons · 七十二候
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The 36 years every girl's name ended in 子
From 1921 to 1956 not one name in the girls' top ten ended in anything else. In the same 114 years, exactly one name — 葵, in 2016 — ever appears on both lists.
Eki · 駅
Watch Japan's railways bloom
The map grew fastest in the 1910s–20s — most of Japan's stations opened long before the bullet train.
Edo · 江戸
260 warlords, leashed to one city
The march could swallow nearly half a domain's budget — Tosa spent 44% on it in 1688.