How Many Seasons In The Year?

most I guess would say 4,

 but there are a few more if you look at the newly translated app by Utsukushii Kurashikata Institute (Beautiful Living Research Lab), it is a joint initiative between ad agency Dentsu and publishing company Heibonsha, the project aims to show a lifestyle that incorporates age-old Japanese wisdom into contemporary life,

in this application there are 72 seasons in fact, so how is this? how did Japan even develop 72 microseasons? the app developer, Utsukushii Kurashikata Institute, explains: the path of the sun as seen from Earth creates a zodiac, 360 degrees divided into 24 15-degree sections, each one given a name to depict the seasonal changes through the year and beyond that, each season of the 24 season calendar was then divided again into three more, to create the 72 season calendar, each of these 72 seasons lasts just five days or so, and the names of each season beautifully depict the tiny, delicate changes in nature that occur around us, year in year out,

if you instal the app, I have, every 5 days you will be 'pinged' as a new season opens, the next for us will be First Spring 2 The Nightingale Sings, neat.