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It dates back to the Yin period in East Asia. It is said that in the Continent of Asia under the Yin dynasty Jikkan(TheTenStems) (a kind of numeral)and JUNISHI(the twelveSigns)were combined in sixty different ways to show days, months, years, and directions; JUNISHI was used to show time.
Later, different animals were used for the twelve signs of JUNISHI.。
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起源は東アジア大陸の商(殷)王朝の時代にさかのぼります。十干と十二支を60通りに組み合わせて、日・月・年を示し、時を経ても、十二支で時刻まで表したり。その後、数千年を経て、解り易く十二支に動物を当てはめるようになりました。
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