Kannazuki

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Kannazuki

is a traditional name for the tenth month in the traditional Japanese calendar

Japanese calendar

Since January 1, 1873, Japan has used the Gregorian calendar, with local names for the months and mostly fixed holidays. Before 1873, a lunisolar calendar was in use, which was adapted from the Chinese calendar....
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The name can be translated literally as "the month when there are no gods". In Shinto

Shinto

is the former state religion of Japan and remains the most common name for the nation's non-Buddhist ethnic religion practices. It was formed from disparate local mythologies, beginning with the Kojiki of 712, into an imperial cult called State Shinto that solidified in the Meiji period....
tradition it was said that the eight million gods of Japan left their shrines and congregated annually at Izumo Taisha

Izumo Taisha

is one of the most ancient and important of the Jinja in Japan. Its name means "The Grand Shrine of Izumo Province." No record gives the date of establishment....
. There the month was known as , "the month when the gods are present".

Until 1873 the tenth month of the lunar calendar largely overlapped with the modern month of November.

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is a traditional name for the tenth month in the traditional Japanese calendar

Japanese calendar

Shinto

Izumo Taisha

Gregorian calendar

The Gregorian calendar is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 by the papal bull Inter gravissimas....
in Japan in that year October became generally accepted as the "godless month".