![]() Click the animal signs on the following wheel of Chinese zodiac chart to learn more about their basic facts including birth years. For example, 2018 is a Year of the Dog and 2019 is a Year of the Pig. Throughout the exhibition Every Living Thing: Animals in Japanese Art, zodiac animals are portrayed in various roles-sometimes taking on human form in playful parodies, but also as protectors of the home, and as companions of Buddhist deities. The cycle repeats every 12 years with the order like this: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig. Images of the fertile rabbit, for example, are used in prayers for healthy children, while the white rat, messenger of the god of wealth, signaled a good harvest. Each of the 12 years is associated with an animal, beginning with the rat and followed by the ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat or sheep, monkey, rooster or chicken, dog, and wild boar.Īuspicious meanings assigned to zodiac animals make them symbols of good fortune and popular subjects for works of art. ![]() By the sixth century, Japan had adopted the Chinese zodiac, a set of 12 calendar symbols that correspond to times of the day, points on a compass, and years (but not months, as in the Western zodiac) in a repeating cycle. Click here to enter your year of birth to find what your zodiac animal is and your lucky color, lucky number, and horoscope in 2022. ![]()
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