The mansupi tachira ripōchya is the most recent of the tachira ripōchya solar calendars in the country of Kyōti. It consists of eight months ranging from forty-four to forty-seven days. To adjust the calendar for imperfect cycles, some months lose “fall back” one day every 4, 8, or 16 years. These fall days are in the appropriate years evenly divisible by their respective number.
Furúchi: 46 days
Netsúo: 47 days, fall day 1/4 years
Myoràchi: 47 days
Hizofūne: 44 days, fall day 1/8 years
Kosobyòri: 47 days
Jinòkyo: 46 days, fall day 1/16 years
Saríchi: 45 days
Dòte: 47 days, fall day 1/4 years
The years of the calendar are measured from the Hizogoma Betrayal and are abbreviated as “HB”.
Date Formats
The most common formatting for the dates is either the year, month, and day as 1-based numbers and separated by forward slashes.
1471/3/1
1471/3/1 MTR
The long format for the date is the year, the full name of the month, and then the numeric day followed by “kāi” which means day. The kāi is omitted when obvious.
1471 Myorachi 1 kāi
1471 Rachi 1 kāi
Historical Changes
When the calendar was first created, the initial months were named after the eight allies of Tachìra in his war against Chobìre.
368 = Wo 46, Ne 46, Myu 46, Hi 46, Ko 46, Ji 46, Sa 45, Kyo 47
Language diminutives
These were changes to the names of the months, mostly due to the translation between the different clan names and the largely oral tradition.
Wochifumi ríchi becomes Wofuríchi
Myuraku rìchi becomes Myoràchi
Kosòbyo rìchi becomes Kosobyòri
Sachikónu rìchi becomes Saríchi
368 = Wo 46, Ne 46, Myo 46, Hi 46, Ko 46, Ji 46, Sa 45, Kyo 47
Kyodote Dominance
Myoràchi goes from 46 to 47 days
Jiyokoni richi goes from 46 to 45 days
368 = Wo 46, Ne 46, Myo 47, Hi 46, Ko 46, Ji 45, Sa 45, Kyo 47
Bochigomāsu
Growing trade from the southern countries gives the concept of an eight-day week. Since eight is a holy number in the desert, this becomes quickly popular.
Migafi Mapyózi
Mapyózi, as a teenager, realizes that the calendar isn’t accurate enough. She spends the rest of her life traveling the desert to spread the understanding. This is also where the idea of giving an extra day and taking it away was the way to correct the calendar instead of leap days as in our world. Later, she realizes that she wasn’t correct and commits suicide.
Netsugio ríchi goes from 46 to 47 days, loses a day once every four years
Kyodote richi loses a day once every four years
368.50 = Wo 46, Ne 46.75, Myo 47, Hi 46, Ko 46, Ji 45, Sa 45, Kyo 46.75
Myuraku Jinokìn
Upset about the diminution of his clan’s name in the calendar spends his life trying to get it renamed back to the original name. He fails, but in the process of trying to garner favor, he shifts the days around before he failed his life’s mission.
Myoràchi is reduced from 47 to 46 days
Jiyokoni richi is increased from 45 to 46 days.
Jiyokoni richi is changed to Jinòkyo
368.50 = Wo 46, Ne 46.75, Myo 46, Hi 46, Ko 46, Ji 46, Sa 45, Kyo 46.75
Fimùchi Calculations
Kosobyòri loses a day once every eight years
368.375 = Wo 46, Ne 46.75, Myo 46, Hi 46, Ko 45.875, Ji 46, Sa 45, Kyo 46.75
The Hizogōma clan becomes one of the most famous of the clans to turn their back on Tachira and join forces with Chobìre.
Beginning of the modern calendar’s accounting of years.
Hizogoma rìchi is renamed to Hizofūne
Hizofūne is reduced to 44 days
Myoràchi is increased from 46 to 47 days
Kosobyòri is increased from 46 to 47 days
368.375 = Wo 46, Ne 46.75, Myo 47, Hi 44, Ko 46.875, Ji 46, Sa 45, Kyo 46.75
Language continues to drift
Wofuríchi is now known as Furúchi
Netsugio ríchi is now Netsúo
Kyodòte is now Dòte
368.375 = Fu 46, Ne 46.75, Myo 47, Hi 44, Ko 46.875, Ji 46, Sa 45, Do 46.75
Mansupi Observation
Lead by Mansūpi.
This was a politic reform in an attempt to “normalize” the calendar. It makes the leap days more evenly spread out through the year, continues the stealing of days from Hizofūne and shows the continual rise of the Kosòbyo clan.
Hizofūne loses a day once every 1/8 years
Kosobyòri no longer has a fall day
Jinòkyo loses a day once every 1/16 years
368.3125 = Fu 46, Ne 46.75, Myo 47, Hi 43.875, Ko 47, Ji 45.9375, Sa 45, Do 46.75