Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Saikaku: Year of the Fiery Horse

 According to the World Bank, Japanese fertility rates have gone down in the Year of the Fiery Horse because people don't want to give birth to daughters that year.

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/curse-fire-horse-how-superstition-impacted-fertility-rates-japan

And here's an amusing Reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1b2htt8/til_the_fire_horse_is_a_sexagenary_60_year_cycle/

Sample post:

I am a fire horse and I didn't kill my husband, but he is dead.

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Well... that's suspicious

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