Today is daikan (大寒), one of nijyushisekki (二十四節気), 24 solar terms. The last one was shokan(小寒) on January 5 and the next one is risshun (立春) on February 4.
Daikan literally means big cold. This should be the coldest season of the year. However this year in Tokyo and other places it was rather warm like April. Yesterday it was also rather warm, and maybe tomorrow too. But after that it will be cold again.
They say January 20 is tama no koshi no hi(玉の輿の日), day of marrying into the purple. Why? Because on January 2, 1905 George Dennison Morgan, the nephew of the founder of J.P. Morgan & Company got married a Japanese geisha Oyuki (お雪).
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