section_path: Divisions of time/Seasons
section_name: Seasons
paragraph_text: Seasons
  
  There are four seasons corresponding to the West's:
  
  However, there is also a traditional system of 72 microseasons (候, kō), consisting of 24 solar terms (節気, sekki) each divided into three sets of five days, and with specially-named days or Zassetsu (雑節) indicating the start and end of each. This system was adapted from the Chinese in 1685 by court astronomer Shibukawa Shunkai, rewriting the names to better match the local climate and nature in his native Japan. Each kō has traditional customs, festivals, foods, flowers and birds associated with it: